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Land-wind. World English Historical Dictionary

Land-wind. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1903, rev. 2024. Land-wind A wind blowing from the land seawards. Also attrib. (Cf. LAND-BREEZE.)

1 1598.  W. 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.

2 1604.  E. G[rimstone], D’Acosta’s Hist. Indies, III. viii. 142. There be foraine or land windes which come from the land.

3 1793.  Smeaton, Edystone L., § 12. Being a Land-wind, it must blow hard before it raises any considerable sea at the rock.

4 1804.  Med. Jrnl., XII. 538. It is not uncommon, during the land-wind, for the thermometer to stand at upwards of 100° in the shade.

5 1848.  Longf., Sir H. Gilbert, v. Alas! the land-wind failed.

6 1862.  Mrs. Speid, Last Years Ind., 44. In the land-wind season.

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