weather siden.
/ˈwɛðə sʌɪd/, U.S. /ˈwɛðər ˌsaɪd/ 1. Nautical. The windward side (of a vessel, etc.).
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > side(s) of vessel > [noun] > towards wind
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weather side1399
weatherboard1644
1399 W. Langland Richard Redeles iv. 77 Þan lay þe lordis a-lee with laste and with charge,..And warned him wisely of þe wedir-side.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. xxjv The Caricke was on the wetherside, and the Regent on the lye side.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine at Weather When a ship under sail presents either of her sides to the wind, it is then called the weather-side.
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast ii. 13 I stood in the waist on the weather side.
1883 Man. Seamanship for Boys' Training Ships Royal Navy 3 Salutes on Board Ship. The starboard side in harbour, and the weather side at sea, is the officers' side.
2. The side (e.g. of a building, a tree) that is most exposed to injury from weather.
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the world > space > relative position > quality of having sides or being a side > [noun] > fact of having distinct sides > one or other side or hand > side facing specific direction > side facing wind or weather
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wind-hand1647
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1827 H. Steuart Planter's Guide (1828) 136 Most Trees are unequally balanced, and show what is called a ‘weather-side’, usually to the west and south-west, in this island.
1827 Ann. Reg., Chron. 48/1 Many shepherds..had hair-breadth escapes, and some perished in wearing their flocks from the weather-side of the hills.
1838 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 1 338/2 On the occasion of repairing the weather side of the tower of the Lady Church, at Munich.
1860 M. F. Maury Physical Geogr. Sea (ed. 8) 96 The weather side of all such mountains as the Andes is the wet side, and the lee side the dry.
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