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lee shore
noun
- a shore toward which the wind blows.
Word History and Origins
Origin of lee shore1
Idioms and Phrases
- on a lee shore, in difficulty or danger.
Example Sentences
Claw: To beat to windward off a lee-shore, or generally to beat to windward when such is difficult on account of heavy weather.
The Weser estuary was on my starboard hand, but the whole place was a lee-shore and a mass of unknown banks—just look at them.
I was deep in the bottle-neck bight of the sands, jammed on a lee shore, and a strong flood tide sweeping me on.
Shortly after our arrival a vessel hove in sight, and anchored on the same dangerous lee shore.
They had found "it" in four feet of water not more than a couple of yards from the lee shore of the island.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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