lee

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• Rhymes: -iː
• Homophones: lea

From Middle English lee, from Old English hlēo, hlēow (“shelter, protection”), from Proto-Germanic *hlewą (compare German Lee (“lee”), lau (“lukewarm”), Swedish lä, Danish læ, Norwegian le, Old Norse hlé, Dutch lij), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱelh₁- (compare Welsh clyd (“warm, cozy”), Latin calēre (“to warm up”), Lithuanian šiltas (“warm, pleasant”), Sanskrit शरद् (śarad, “autumn”)).

lee (plural lees)

1. (sailing) A protected cove or harbor, out of the wind.
2. (sailing) The side of the ship away from the wind.
3. A sheltered place, especially a place protected from the wind by some object; the side sheltered from the wind (see also leeside); shelter; protection.

   the lee of a mountain, an island, or a ship

   • Morte d'Arthure

     We lurked under lee.

   • Tyndall

     Desiring me to take shelter in his lee.

• (geology) stoss
• (nautical) weather, windward

• alee
• leeward
• leeway

lee (not comparable)

Lee side on the left; stoss side on the right

1. (sailing, geology) Facing away from the flow of a fluid, usually air.

   lee side, lee shore, lee helm

lee (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Lees; dregs.
   • Young

     A thousand demons lurk within the lee.

• Lee in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
• lee at OneLook Dictionary Search
• lee in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

• ELE, eel

lee

1. water

• Tomoyuki Yabe, The Morphosyntax of Complex Verbal Expressions in the Horn of Africa (2007), which cites Hayward (1976) as the source of a usex lee fax-te "the water boiled"

< Swedish lä (“lee”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈleː/, [ˈle̞ː]

lee

1. (nautical) lee (side of the ship away from the wind)
2. (nautical) lee (place protected from the wind by some object)

   saaren lee ― lee of an island

• (side of ship): suojanpuoli

• leenpuoleinen

lee

1. second-person singular imperative of leeën

lee

1. To lie; to speak falsely.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)

From ledd.

lee (present tense leer, past tense lea or leet, past participle lea or leet)

1. to move; to make a body part, or a thing (such as a bolder), move

lee (third-person singular present lees, present participle leein, past leet, past participle leet)

1. To lie (tell lies).
   • 1876, S[arah] R. Whitehead, “On the Wrong Coach”, in Daft Davie and Other Sketches of Scottish Life and Character, London: Hodder and Stoughton, […], OCLC 58040708, page 220:

     ‘It’s a lee,’ says the man; ‘she’s either drunk or daft.’ / ‘Me drunk, you ill-tongued vagabond!’ says my Auntie Kirsty, who couldna bear such a reproach on her good name, ‘I’m a’ but blackfasting this day from either meat or drink; you had better no meddle wi’ my character.’

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

lee

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of leer.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of leer.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of leer.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɪ.ɪ/

lee class 5 (plural mae)

1. egg