Upwind

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Upwind \Up*wind"\, v. t.
To wind up. --Spenser.
[1913 Webster]
Up-wind \Up"-wind`\, adv.
Against the wind; toward the direction from which the wind is
blowing.
[Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]
upwind \up"wind`\, a.
being or moving in the direction from which the wind is
blowing.
[PJC]

upwind
adv 1: toward the wind; "they were sailing leeward" [syn:
leeward, upwind] [ant: downwind, windward]

2: in the direction opposite to the direction the wind is
blowing; "they flew upwind" [syn: upwind, {against the
wind}, into the wind] [ant: downwind]
adj 1: towards the side exposed to wind [syn: upwind,
weather(a)]

upwind [ʌpwaind]
windwärts

upwind

windwärts; luv adj; gegen den Wind

51 Moby Thesaurus words for "upwind":
alee, alight, arise, ascend, aweather, come down, come in, come up,
crash-land, curl upwards, descend, ditch, downwind, go up, grow up,
land, leeward, level off, levitate, light, loom, mount, overshoot,
pancake, rear, rear up, rise, rise up, settle down, spiral, spire,
stand up, surge, swarm up, sweep up, talk down, to leeward,
to windward, touch down, tower, up, upgo, upgrow, upheave, uprise,
upspin, upstream, upsurge, upswarm, weatherward, windward

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