单词 | out-wind |
释义 | out-windn. 1. A wind blowing seaward from the land. Now Newfoundland. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [noun] > wind with reference to direction > wind blowing from the land land-wind1598 land-breeze1667 out-wind1669 1669 T. Allin Jrnl. 29 Nov. (1940) (modernized text) II. 133 We gave over going in with an out wind. 1860 J. T. Mullock Two Lect. on Newfoundland 40 All the fog and damp of the banks..descends in rain there with the south-westerly winds, while we never have the benefit of it, unless when what we call the out-winds blow. 1887 G. J. Bond Skipper George Netman 15 The best time for sealers is when there is just enough out-winds to keep the ice together, but not driving it together too tight for the vessels. 1966 in Dict. Newfoundland Eng. (at cited word) If the wind is out on the first of April, you'll have out-winds for the rest of the month. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [noun] > wind with reference to direction > wind blowing from the sea sea-wind1604 sea-turn1627 out-wind1676 tropaean winds1686 sea-breeze1697 1676 C. Jeaffreson Let. in Young Squire 17th Cent. (1878) I. 173 [Near Funchal there is] a rock, a small distance from the land, between which and the shoar, the Porteguise ships ride in out-windes. a1703 H. Winstanley in S. Smiles Lives Engineers (1861) II. 17 The sea would be so raging about these rocks, caused by outwinds and the running of the ground seas coming from the main ocean. 1754 T. Gardner Hist. Acct. Dunwich 214 Choaked by most boisterous Outwinds. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1669 |
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