The weather-side; that on which the wind blows; the opposite of leeward (which see). Old sailors exhort their neophytes to throw nothing over the weather-side except ashes or hot water: a hint not mistakable.
·adv Toward the wind; in the direction from which the wind blows. II. Windward ·adj Situated toward...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
One who uses or navigates the windward passage; a sodomite. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
, or turning to windward. That mode of navigating a ship in which she endeavours to gain a positio...
The Sailor's Word-Book
The reverse of leeward set. ...
See weather-tide. ...
See beating ...
Sailing against the wind by alternate tacks. (See beating.) ...
To gain on the wind by alternate tacking. It is when a ship endeavours to make progress against the ...