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LEE
LEE, an epithet used by seamen to distinguish that part of the hemisphere to which the wind is directed, from the other part whence it arises; which latter is accordingly called to windward. This expression is chiefly used when the wind crosses the line of a ship's course, so that all on one side of her is called to-windward, and all on the opposite side, to-leeward: and hence,Under the LEE, implies further to the leeward, or further from that part of the horizon from whence the wind blows; as,
Under the LEE of the shore; i.e. at a short distance from the shore which lies to windward. This phrase is commonly understood to express the situation of a vessel, anchored, or sailing under the weather-shore, where there is always smoother water, and less danger of heavy seas, than at a great distance from it.
Milton alludes to this situation, in his second book of Paradise Lost: where,
" The pilot of some small night-founder'd skiff,
LEE-LARCHES
LEE-LARCHES, the sudden and violent rolls which a ship often takes to the leeward in a high sea, particularly when a large wave strikes her on the weather- side.LEE-SIDE
LEE-SIDE, all that part of a ship or boat which lies between the mast, and the side furthest from the direction of the wind; or otherwise, the half of a ship, which is pressed down towards the water by the effort of the sails, as separated from the other half, by a line drawn through the middle of her length. That part of the ship, which lies to windward of this line, is accordingly called the weather-side.LEE-SIDE, all that part of a ship or boat which lies between the mast, and the side furthest from the direction of the wind; or otherwise, the half of a ship, which is pressed down towards the water by the effort of the sails, as separated from the other half, by a line drawn through the middle of her length. That part of the ship, which lies to windward of this line, is accordingly called the weather-side.
Thus admit a ship to be sailing southward, with the wind at east, then is her starboard, or right-side, the lee-Jide; and the larboard, or left, the weather-side.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 176, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/0797.html