a. [f. LEEWARD + -LY1.] Of a ship: Apt to fall to leeward. Opposed to WEATHERLY.
1683. Hacke, Collect. Voy., I. (1699), 31. So leewardly a Ship, that she would not make her way better than N. by W. with this Sea.
1801. Nelson, in Nicolas, Disp. (1843), IV. 274. She was such a leewardly ship … that I should often be forced to anchor on a lee shore.
1865. Examiner, 18 March, 163. They are far too leewardly to work to windward.
fig. 1890. Clark Russell, My Shipm. Louise, II. xxiv. 216. There’s the Whole Dooty o’ Man—a bit leewardly; I couldn’t fetch to windward of it myself.
