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  • noun wind that blows from west to east

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Examples

  • We now only had to get there as quickly as possible, and the west wind helped us splendidly; one stiff breeze succeeded another, without our having any excessive weather.

    The South Pole~ From Madeira to the Barrier 2009

  • I went there once with my father, a day's sail up the river on the west wind.

    'Lavinia' 2008

  • Then I reminded the Monkey Man that he'd have 7 miles of riding home, face into the west wind.

    Navel ad Nauseum Anne Johnson 2007

  • Then I reminded the Monkey Man that he'd have 7 miles of riding home, face into the west wind.

    Archive 2007-03-01 Anne Johnson 2007

  • We now only had to get there as quickly as possible, and the west wind helped us splendidly; one stiff breeze succeeded another, without our having any excessive weather.

    The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912 2003

  • They had fought hard and long, loose feathers strewed the sand and drifted in the hot puffs of the west wind.

    Warlock Smith, Wilbur 2001

  • It was of streets like Keppel Street that they would have dreamed, with the Stag Light winking to port, and the west wind blowing strong astern.

    The Altar Steps Compton MacKenzie 1927

  • But there was another lover than the west wind waiting for this most lovable of mortals.

    Writer's Recollections Ward, Mrs Humphry 1918

  • Japan is visited by the north and the west wind, the atmospheric pressure being lower on the Pacific Ocean than on the continent.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

  • Page him to let the snow-child stay and enjoy herself in the cold west wind.

    The Snow-Image: A Childish Miracle 1900

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