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Leeward vs Looard - What's the difference?

leeward | looard |

As adverbs the difference between leeward and looard

is that leeward is away from the direction from which the wind is blowing. Downwind while looard is leeward.

As an adjective leeward

is on the side sheltered from the wind; in that direction.

leeward

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • On the side sheltered from the wind; in that direction.

    • Synonyms

    * downwind

    Antonyms

    * windward

    Derived terms

    * Leeward Islands

    Related terms

    * leeway

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • Away from the direction from which the wind is blowing. Downwind.

    • Antonyms

    * windward

    External links

    * ("leeward" on Wikipedia)

    looard

    English

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (nautical) leeward
  • * {{quote-book, year=1877, author=Charles W. Hall, title=Adrift in the Ice-Fields, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=So my great-uncle, who were bosin, made an observation, and says he, 'There's just ten days' provision for seven men, and we're twenty days to looard of Silly Bes (Celebes), if we only row ten miles a day. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1884, author=Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), title=The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Complete, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="Keep away, boy--keep to looard . }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1921, author=Christopher Morley, title=Plum Pudding, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=I heard the starboard steward Singing abaft the poop; He lewdly sang to looard And sleep fled from the sloop. }}