Definition of lee Lee
/liˈ/ - [lee] - lee
We found 21 definitions of lee from 8 different sources.
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What does lee mean?
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NounPlural: lees |
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| lee - the side of something that is sheltered from the wind | ||
| lee side, leeward | ||
| side, face an extended outer surface of an object; "he turned the box over to examine the bottom side"; "they painted all four sides of the house" | ||
| lee - American general who led the Confederate Armies in the American Civil War (1807-1870) | ||
| Robert E. Lee, Robert Edward Lee | ||
| lee - soldier of the American Revolution (1756-1818) | ||
| Henry Lee, Lighthorse Harry Lee | ||
| lee - leader of the American Revolution who proposed the resolution calling for independence of the American Colonies (1732-1794) | ||
| Richard Henry Lee | ||
| lee - United States physicist (born in China) who collaborated with Yang Chen Ning in disproving the principle of conservation of parity (born in 1926) | ||
| Tsung Dao Lee | ||
| lee - United States actor who was an expert in kung fu and starred in martial arts films (1941-1973) | ||
| Bruce Lee, Lee Yuen Kam | ||
| lee - United States striptease artist who became famous on Broadway in the 1930s (1914-1970) | ||
| Gypsy Rose Lee, Rose Louise Hovick | ||
| lee - United States filmmaker whose works explore the richness of black culture in America (born in 1957) | ||
| Spike Lee, Shelton Jackson Lee | ||
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Wiktionary 
- lee (Noun)
A protected cove or harbor, out of the wind. - lee (Noun)
The side of the ship away from the wind.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- lee (v. i.)
To lie; to speak falsely. - lee (n.)
That which settles at the bottom, as of a cask of liquor (esp. wine); sediment; dregs; -- used now only in the plural. - lee (n.)
A sheltered place; esp., a place protected from the wind by some object; the side sheltered from the wind; shelter; protection; as, the lee of a mountain, an island, or a ship. - lee (n.)
That part of the hemisphere, as one stands on shipboard, toward which the wind blows. See Lee, a. - lee (a.)
Of or pertaining to the part or side opposite to that against which the wind blows; -- opposed to weather; as, the lee side or lee rail of a vessel.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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lee
lē, n. the quarter toward which the wind blows.—adj. as in Lee′-side, the sheltered side of a ship.—ns. Lee′-board, a board lowered on the lee-side of a vessel, and acting like a keel or centre-board to prevent her from drifting to leeward; Lee′-gage, the sheltered or safe side:—opp. to Weather-gage; Lee′-shore, the shore opposite to the lee-side of a ship; Lee′-tide, a tide running in the same direction as the wind is blowing.—adj. Lee′ward, pertaining to, or in, the direction toward which the wind blows.—adv. toward the lee.—n. Lee′way, the distance a ship is driven to leeward of her true course: a falling behind.—Make up leeway, to make up for time lost; Under the lee, on the side sheltered from the wind, under shelter from the wind. [A.S. hleów, shelter; Ice. hlé, Low Ger. lee; prov. Eng. lew.]
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lee
lē, n. (Spens.) a river: also the same as Lea
Marine DictionaryUniversal Dictionary of the Marine ⚓️
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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 farther to the leeward, or farther 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[37].
Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book ⛵
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lee
From the Scandinavian word lœ or laa, the sea; it is the side opposite to that from which the wind is blowing; as, if a vessel has the wind on her port side, that side will be the weather, and the starboard will be the lee side.--Under the lee, expresses the situation of a vessel anchored or sailing near the weather-shore, where there is always smoother water than at a great distance from it.--To lay a ship by the lee, or to come up by the lee, is to let her run off until the wind is brought on the lee-quarter, so that all her sails lie flat against the masts and shrouds.
Wikipedia 
- Lée is a commune of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques "département" in the southwestern part of France.
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🔤- lee, noun, singular of lees.
- lee, adjective.
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