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WEATHER SIDE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does weather side mean?
• WEATHER SIDE (noun)
The noun WEATHER SIDE has 1 sense:
1. the side toward the wind
Familiarity information: WEATHER SIDE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The side toward the wind
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Synonyms:
weather side; weatherboard; windward side
Hypernyms ("weather side" is a kind of...):
windward (the direction from which the wind is coming)
Context examples
Wolf Larsen barked a short laugh in my ear and strode away to the weather side of the poop.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
As I started toward the weather side I saw him make a sudden motion with his head, which I mistook for a token of recognition and good-morning.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
I had been swept against the galley and around the steerage companion-way from the weather side into the lee scuppers.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
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