Vocabulary Word
Word: leeway
Definition: room to move; margin; latitude; Ex. leeway for the deadline
Definition: room to move; margin; latitude; Ex. leeway for the deadline
Sentences Containing 'leeway'
If the wires were stretched taut in the summer, there would not be sufficient leeway for the contraction which accompanies cold weather, and in winter they would snap.
No: he desired a canoe like those of Nantucket, all the more congenial to him, being a whaleman, that like a whale-boat these coffin-canoes were without a keel; though that involved but uncertain steering, and much lee-way adown the dim ages.
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