a. Naut. [f. WEATHER sb. (8) + -MOST.] Furthest to windward.
1557. Towrson, in Hakluyt, Voy. (1589), 125. The Christopher being the headmost & the weathermost man.
1622. Sir R. Hawkins, Voy. S. Sea, lix. 140. But in equitie and reason, the le-ward shippe ought euer to giue way to the weather most.
1726. G. Roberts, Voy., 292. Having got the Length of the Weathermost of the little Islands, I bore away afore the Wind for the Fuurno.
1761. Colman, Jealous Wife, III. 43. One of Them made use of small Arms, which carried off the weathermost Corner of Ned Gage’s Hat.
1834. Marryat, P. Simple, xlvi. The brig rounded up on the wind, shooting up under the sterns of the two weathermost schooners.
