windward
/ˈwɪndwə(ɹ)d/ adverb C2- In a direction from which the wind blows, against or towards the wind. · We beat our way windward.
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“Belay.” This order was also executed; and the vessel passed, as Dantès had predicted, twenty fathoms to windward.
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