The Only Use of
leeward
in
The Chrysalids
- By now it rambled off on one side into stock-sheds, stores, stables, and barns, and on the other into wash-houses, dairies, cheese-rooms, farm-hands' rooms, and so on until it three-quarters enclosed a large, beaten-earth yard which lay to leeward of the main house and had a midden for its central feature.†
Chpt 2
Definition:
the direction toward which the wind is blowing