wind-rode

English

Adjective

wind-rode (not comparable)

  1. (nautical) Caused to ride or drive by the wind in opposition to the course of the tide; said of a vessel lying at anchor, with wind and tide opposed to each other.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for wind-rode in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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