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ˈeddy-wind
A wind that moves in an eddy.
1626Capt. Smith Accid. Yng. Seamen 17 A gust, a storme..an eddy wind. 1647Ward Simp. Cobler 20 Men..that are weather-waft up and down with every eddy-wind of every new doctrine. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. i. 505 Chaff with eddy Winds is whirl'd around. 1715Desaguliers Fires Impr. 152 Such Eddy-Winds blow from the South when we have them here at London. 1772–84Cook Voy. (1790) IV. 1218 There is..an eddy wind at S.W. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. s.v., The eddy-wind of a sail escaping in a curve makes the sail abaft shiver. |