Usually means: Sheltered side away from wind.
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We found 41 dictionaries that define the word Lee:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. lee: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Lee, lee: Merriam-Webster
  3. lee: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. lee: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. lee: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Lee, lee: Vocabulary.com
  7. Lee, lee, lee: Wordnik
  8. lee: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Lee, l'ee, lee: Wiktionary
  10. lee: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. lee: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. lee: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Lee, lee: Dictionary.com
  14. lee: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. LEE, Lee (Chinese surname), Lee (English name), Lee (English surname), Lee (Jeans), Lee (Korean name), Lee (Korean surname), Lee (crater), Lee (disambiguation), Lee (given name), Lee (jeans), Lee (surname), Lee, The Lee: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Lee: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. lee: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. lee: Rhymezone
  19. Lee: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  20. lee: FreeDictionary.org
  21. lee: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. Lee: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. lee: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  24. Lee: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lee: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. LEE: Acronym Finder
  3. lee: A Word A Day
  4. LEE: Three Letter Words with definitions
  5. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  6. baby names list (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lee: Urban Dictionary

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. lee: Master Mariner
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. LEE: Glossary of Nautical Terms
  4. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  5. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See leeing as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Lee)

noun:  (nautical) A protected cove or harbor, out of the wind.
noun:  (nautical) The side of the ship away from the wind.
noun:  A sheltered place, especially a place protected from the wind by some object; the side sheltered from the wind (see also leeside); shelter; protection.
noun:  Calm, peace.
adjective:  (nautical, geology) Facing away from the flow of a fluid, usually air.
noun:  (obsolete) Lees; dregs.
noun:  An English topographic surname from Middle English for someone who lived near a meadow (the Anglo-Saxon for meadow being ley or leag).
noun:  A unisex given name.
noun:  A male given name derived from the surname, masculine of Leigh
noun:  A female given name popular in conjoined names such as Lee Ann or Mary Lee.
noun:  A placename, for example:
noun:  A number of places in England:
noun:  A hamlet in Berrynarbor parish, North Devon district, Devon (OS grid ref SS5546).
noun:  A small village in Ilfracombe parish, North Devon district, Devon (OS grid ref SS4846).
noun:  A suburb in the borough of Lewisham, Greater London (OS grid ref TQ3974).
noun:  A hamlet in Romsey parish, Test Valley district, Hampshire, previously in Romsey Extra parish (OS grid ref SU3617).
noun:  A village in Buckinghamshire, commonly known as The Lee.
noun:  A number of places in the United States:
noun:  A former settlement in Inyo County, California.
noun:  A town in Madison County, Florida.
noun:  A village in DeKalb County and Lee County, Illinois.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Monon Township, White County, Indiana.
noun:  A town in Penobscot County, Maine.
noun:  A town in Berkshire County, Massachusetts.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Elko County, Nevada.
noun:  A town in Strafford County, New Hampshire.
noun:  A town and village in Oneida County, New York.
noun:  A number of townships in the United States, listed under Lee Township.
noun:  A river in County Cork, Ireland.
noun:  A surname from Chinese.
noun:  A surname from Cantonese.
noun:  A surname from Hokkien.
noun:  A surname from Teochew.
noun:  A surname from Mandarin.
noun:  A surname from Hakka.
noun:  A surname from Korean; alternative form of Rhee.
noun:  A male given name.
noun:  A nickname for various given names with the first syllable as Lee; Clipping of Leo, Leroy.
noun:  Obsolete form of li (“traditional Chinese unit of distance”). [The Chinese mile, a traditional unit of distance equal to 1500 chis or 150 zhangs, now standardized as a half-kilometer (500 meters).]
noun:  Alternative spelling of Lea, the River Lea in eastern England. [A female given name from Hebrew, form of Leah.]

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