Also dial. lew side. [LEE sb.1] That side of any object which is turned away from the wind. Opposed to weather-side.
1577–87. Holinshed, Chron., III. 815/2. The Carrike was on the weather side, and the Regent on the lie side.
1609. C. Butler, Fem. Mon., i. (1623), C iv. They fly alow by the ground … in the … lee-sides of the hedges.
1748. Anson’s Voy., III. v. 340. The proa … has … her two sides very different; the side, intended to be always the lee-side, being flat.
1833. Marryat, P. Simple, xii. I waited under the bulwark on the lee side.
1855. Maury, Phys. Geog. Sea, 96. The weather side of all such mountains as the Andes is the wet side, and the lee side the dry.
1894. Q. Rev., April, 418. The valleys that lie on the ‘lew’ side of the prevailing winds.
fig. 1812. Scott, Fam. Lett. (1894), I. viii. 240. You see I keep on the leeside of prudence.
