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ˈwind-ˌdriven, ppl. a.
Also 4 -dryve, -drive.
[f. wind n.1 + driven.]
Driven, carried, impelled, or propelled by the wind.
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) VI. 137 Seyllynge in þe see he was wynd dryven into Affrica. 1390Gower Conf. III. 49 Wynddrive he was al soudeinly Upon the strondes of Cilly. c1595Capt. Wyatt R. Dudley's Voy. W. Ind. (Hakl. Soc.) 16 Huge mountaines of windedriven sandes. a1604Hanmer Chron. Irel. (1809) 174 Certaine tall ships of theirs were wind-driven thither. 1629H. Burton Truth's Tri. 345 St. Iames compares the faithlesse man to the winde⁓driuen waue. a1680Butler Rem., Refl. Milford-Haven (1759) I. 412 That Enemy, that would invade it, and were wind-driven on the British Coast. 1787Burns Extempore in Crt. Sess. ii, Like wind-driv'n hail, it did assail. 1859H. Kingsley G. Hamlyn xliv, The harbour was a sheet of wind-driven foam. 1900H. Sutcliffe Shameless Wayne i, To brush away a cobweb, wind-driven against her cheek. 1906Cornford Defenceless Islands 75 Ships, coal-driven instead of wind-driven. |