wind-dry

American  

[wind-drahy] / ˈwɪndˌdraɪ /

verb (used with object)

wind-dried, wind-drying

1. to dry (something) through exposure to wind.

2. to preserve (foodstuffs) through drying by wind exposure.

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verb (used without object)

wind-dried, wind-drying

1. to preserve meat or fish through drying by wind exposure.

Other Word Forms

• wind-drying
  noun
• wind-dried
  adjective

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

wind-dried

Skerpikjet—fermented and wind-dried lamb—served on reindeer lichen with mushrooms.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 11, 2018

Two Faroese delicacies, fermented ocean perch and wind-dried pilot whale, hanging in a shed perforated with air vents.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 11, 2018

“My teacher in Sichuan used to whip up a quick, casual lunch of yesterday’s rice stir-fried with morsels of homemade wind-dried sausage and other odds and ends,” Ms. Dunlop said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2016

While Port Walter in the southern panhandle is flooded by 18 feet of annual rainfall, the wind-dried North Slope is an Arctic desert that gets only four inches of precipitation a year.

From Time Magazine Archive

The new tenant was a sallow, gaunt, wind-dried seamstress of sixty, who paid her rent punctually, but who was— “Mighty poor comp’ny to thim as’s been used to the upper tin, Mr. Ristofalo.”

From Dr. Sevier by Cable, George Washington