cross wind

or cross·wind

[wind]

noun

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

Origin of cross wind

First recorded in 1915–20

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Historical Examples of cross wind

But with a beam (cross-wind) or head wind a reduction of from three to five knots and a half was produced.
Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, September 1899
Various
I tell you, a compass doesnt help much when theres a cross-wind.
The Flying Reporter
Lewis E. (Lewis Edwin) Theiss