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† ˈfore-wind Obs.
Also for-.
[f. fore- prefix + wind n. Cf. Du. voorwind.]
A wind that blows a ship forward on her course, a favourable wind.
1561Eden Arte Nauig. A iij b, They founde it to serue with a forewynde. 1603Drayton Barons' Wars iv. xix, A for-wind now for Harwich fitly blowes. 1676Hobbes Iliad i. 461 A good forewind Apollo with them sent.
fig.1682S. Pordage Medal Rev. 104 All with the fore⁓wind of Religion Saile. |