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lee shore

noun

  1. a shore toward which the wind blows.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of lee shore1

First recorded in 1570–80
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Idioms and Phrases

Idioms
  1. on a lee shore, in difficulty or danger.
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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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