2technicalTTW a leeward direction is the same direction as the wind is blowing 向下风方向的[地],顺风的[地]OPP windward
to leeward (=in a leeward direction) 顺风
The ship cruised slowly to leeward.
船慢慢地顺风航行。
Examples from the Corpus
leeward side• We picnicked on the leeward side of a wall.• To my left, the leeward side of sixty-foot dunesrose like a wall alongside the road.• But it was on the leeward side of the house, and it had stood up to storms before.• The fishermen from the leeward sidesucceeded in wrestling to shore about two dozen of the whales every season.