trade winds

/ trād /

1. Winds that blow steadily from east to west and toward the equator over most of the Torrid Zone. The trade winds are caused by hot air rising at the equator, with cool air moving in to take its place from the north and from the south. The winds are deflected westward because of the Earth's west-to-east rotation.
2. Compare antitrades

Example Sentences

Then Columbus reports on the edge of the Earth: Where are the trade winds?

From The Daily Beast

The shrieking trade-winds and the dense white fogs were hibernating somewhere out in the Pacific.

From Project Gutenberg

Here, as before noted, the air of the trade winds leaves the surface and rises upward.

From Project Gutenberg

But you might as well talk to the trade-winds, especially with such men as Tom Colton stirring the caldron.

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While sailing under the influence of the trade winds, a sailor fell from aloft into the sea.

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It was an eight-hundred-mile run up to Tuvana-tholo, but the weather held good and the trade-winds never slackened.

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