Hypertext Webster Gateway: "upwind"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Up-wind \Up"-wind`\, adv.
Against the wind.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Upwind \Up*wind"\, v. t.
To wind up. --Spenser.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
upwind
adj : towards the side exposed to wind [syn: {weather(a)}]
adv 1: toward the wind; "they were sailing leeward" [syn: {leeward}]
[ant: {windward}, {windward}]
2: in the direction opposite to the direction the wind is
blowing; "they flew upwind" [syn: {against the wind}, {into
the wind}] [ant: {downwind}]
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