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单词 leewardmost
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leewardmostadj.

/ˈliːwədməʊst/
Etymology: < leeward adj. and adv. + -most suffix.
Situated furthest to leeward.
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society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of wind > [adjective] > leeward
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1693 London Gaz. No. 2887/3 He was the Leewardmost Ship of the whole Fleet.
1726 Four Years Voy. Capt. G. Roberts 291 By the Time that it was high Water, under the Leewardmost of the little Islands.
1797 Ld. Nelson in Dispatches & Lett. (1845) II. 341 The leewardmost and sternmost Ships in their Fleet.
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxvi. 86 We..were glad to reach the leewardmost point of the island.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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