weather side

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weather side - the side toward the wind

to windward, windward side, weatherboard

windward - the direction from which the wind is coming

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I had been swept against the galley and around the steerage companion-way from the weather side into the lee scuppers.

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And she was gone with angry tears for which I blamed myself as I fell to pacing the weather side of the poop - and so often afterwards!

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"Takes interest--eh?" jerked out the captain moving rapidly up and down the weather side of the poop.

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He was sitting a few feet away from me, on what then happened to be the weather side of the junk.

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One complained of a bad cold in his head, upon which Jonah mixed him a pitch-like potion of gin and molasses, which he swore was a sovereign cure for all colds and catarrhs whatsoever, never mind of how long standing, or whether caught off the coast of Labrador, or on the weather side of an ice-island.

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It's fair to say we're something of a fair weather side, but the boys love it and it's a privilege to work with them."