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"Mind your conn, sir; keep your eyes on the weather-leech of the sail, and not upon that ship," answered the captain, with asperity.
The King's Own Frederick Marryat 1820
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But there was worse to come, for the wind was freshening every moment and rapidly kicking up a short, steep, choppy sea, the surges of which smothered us with spray as the gig leaped viciously at them under the steadily increasing pressure of the wind upon her close-reefed lugsail; so that within a very few minutes it was taking one hand all his time to keep the boat free of water by continually baling with the bucket, although we eased the craft as much as possible by keeping the weather-leech of the sail ashiver most of the time.
Turned Adrift Harry Collingwood 1886
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a style that did one's heart good to see, and plunging into the heavy head-sea, against which she was beating until her foresail was dark with wet half-way up the weather-leech, and the spray was flying clean over her, and drifting away like smoke to leeward.
The Pirate Slaver A Story of the West African Coast Harry Collingwood 1886
chained_bear commented on the word weather-leech
"'I will leave the glory-side to you, sir,' he said to Jack, his eye fixed on the maintopsail's weather-leech. 'Once they open fire I mean to bear up sharp and steer between them.'" --Patrick O'Brian, The Surgeon's Mate, p. 92
February 7, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word weather-leech
"Up she came, spoke by spoke, until the weather-leech of the maintopsail began to shiver. 'Haul the bowlines,' called Jack."
--Patrick O'Brian, The Ionian Mission, 205
February 14, 2008