Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb At, on, or to the leeward side.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Nautical, on or toward the lee side of a ship or boat, that is, the sheltered side, on which the wind does not strike; away from the wind: opposed to aweather (which see).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb (Naut.) On or toward the lee, or the side away from the wind; the opposite of
aweather . The helm of a ship isalee when pressed close to the lee side. - adverb an order to put the helm to the lee side.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb On the
lee side of a ship; toleeward .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb on or toward the lee
Etymologies
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There's your blog, of course, and some others, but I've found a funny gendered inclination towards or alee public serialized pontification and free-ranging authority.
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There's your blog, of course, and some others, but I've found a funny gendered inclination towards or alee public serialized pontification and free-ranging authority.
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August 14, 2008 at 6:25 am et leest u nawt dum alee-un :p
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October 1, 2008 at 12:43 am sailor kitteh says hard sara alee!
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The organization brought out a monthly paper alee 'Jamhoori Hakk'.
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These were doing their best to fly, but failing of that luck, put helm alee, and shivered in the wind, and made fine speeches, proving that they must win the day.
Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004
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The shouts and shrieks and smart-alee comments of the first rush of embarrassed excitement had died down, and now only murmurs and whispers could be heard.
Dead Famous Elton, Ben 2001
chained_bear commented on the word alee
"the situation of the helm when pushed close down to the lee-side of the ship, in order to put the ship about, or to lay her head to the windward."
—Falconer's New Universal Dictionary of the Marine (1816), 7
October 12, 2008