A-weather

Chamber's Twientieth Century Dictionary · 1908 · p. 10

a-we th ′ėr, adv. ( naut. ) towards the weather or windward side, in the direction from which the wind blows, applied to the position of a helm when its tiller is moved to the windward side of the ship—opp. to A-lee . [Prep. a , on, and Weather .]