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Under the lee

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(Naut.) to the leeward; as, under the lee of the land.

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I put the Reindeer about on the other tack, ran up under the lee of a junk, shivered the mainsail into the wind and lost headway, and forged past the stern of the junk so slowly and so near that one of the patrolmen stepped lightly aboard.
 
 
 
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