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lee side
Also dial. lew side.
[lee n.1]
a. That side of any object which is turned away from the wind. Opposed to weather-side.
1577–87Holinshed Chron. III. 815/2 The Carrike was on the weather side, and the Regent on the lie side. 1609C. Butler Fem. Mon. i. (1623) C iv, They fly alow by the ground..in the..lee-sides of the hedges. 1748Anson's Voy. iii. v. 340 The proa..has..her two sides very different; the side, intended to be always the lee-side, being flat. 1833Marryat P. Simple xii, I waited under the bulwark on the lee side. 1855Maury Phys. Geog. Sea 96 The weather side of all such mountains as the Andes is the wet side, and the lee side the dry. 1894Q. Rev. Apr. 418 The valleys that lie on the ‘lew’ side of the prevailing winds.
fig.1812Scott Fam. Lett. (1894) I. viii. 240 You see I keep on the leeside of prudence.
b. Geol. The ‘down-stream’ side of a mound of rock which has undergone erosion by a glacier.
1886[see drag-line s.v. drag n. 9]. 1920A. W. Grabau Textbk. Geol. I. xiv. 374 The eroded bottom of such a valley often shows hummocky surfaces, sloping and smooth on the side from which the glacier moved (stoss⁓side) and with striated surfaces, but rough and cliffed on the side away from the movement (lee side). 1969J. L. Davies Landforms Cold Climates ix. 171 The characteristic roche moutonnée presents a streamlined appearance with smoothed, more gently sloping, upstream end and sides and a steeper lee side sometimes smooth but characteristically plucked. |