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ˈland-wind
A wind blowing from the land seawards. Also attrib. (Cf. land-breeze.)
1598W. Phillips Linschoten (1864) 192 The East windes beginne to blowe from off the Land into the Seas, whereby they are called Terreinhos, that is to say, the Land windes. 1604E. G[rimstone] D'Acosta's Hist. Indies iii. viii. 142 There be foraine or land windes which come from the land. 1793Smeaton Edystone L. §12 Being a Land-wind, it must blow hard before it raises any considerable sea at the rock. 1804Med. Jrnl. XII. 538 It is not uncommon, during the land-wind, for the thermometer to stand at upwards of 100° in the shade. 1848Longfellow Sir H. Gilbert v, Alas! the land-wind failed. 1862Mrs. Speid Last Years Ind. 44 In the land-wind season. |