Also 7 winwards. [f. WIND sb.1 + -WARDS.] = WINDWARD A.
1589. Hakluyt, Voy., 525. [He] appointed 24. of the lustiest rowers in the great boate, to rowe to windwards.
1622. R. Hawkins, Voy. S. Sea, xxvi. 57. We saw a Shippe turning to Windwards.
1625. in Foster, Engl. Factories India (1909), III. 100. Four Portugall galliones … though to winwards of them, came noe neerer then to descrye their cullours.
1631. Pellham, Gods Power, 8. Wee found the winde … so fiercely blowing, that we could not possibly row to Wind-wards.
