cross wind

or cross·wind

[ wind ]

noun
  1. a wind blowing across the course or path of a ship, aircraft, etc.

Origin of cross wind

1
First recorded in 1915–20

Words Nearby cross wind

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How to use cross wind in a sentence

  • Netanyahu is like a man driving a car with poor wheel alignment in a gusty cross wind.

    Netanyahu, Third-Term Incompetent | Gershom Gorenberg | August 26, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
  • A cross wind helped it along into the rough grass, leaving him a nasty second shot over shrubbery and trees.

    Fore! | Charles Emmett Van Loan
  • In such a cross wind station alone sufficed to decide the race, and Boyd won easily.

    Boating | W. B. Woodgate
  • Let me give him this piece of advice: very rarely slice as a remedy against a cross wind.

  • Between fifteen and twenty minutes, if I don't hit too much cross wind.

    General Max Shorter | Kris Ottman Neville
  • I tell you, a compass doesnt help much when theres a cross-wind.

    The Flying Reporter | Lewis E. (Lewis Edwin) Theiss

British Dictionary definitions for crosswind

crosswind

/ (ˈkrɒsˌwɪnd) /


noun
  1. a wind that blows at right angles to the direction of travel

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