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Etymology 1 n. (context nautical English) The flow of air so deflected vb. (context nautical English) To deflect air into the back of a sail or of a vessel Etymology 2
vb. (context transitive English) To wind backwards.
Usage examples of "backwind".
The backwind had littered the ground with smoldering embers so she had to keep up her shieldscreen.
Lithe and graceful, she was tall with chestnut skin and long black hair that swirled in the backwind of the rotors.
They could feel the backwind as he flipped to the left and flew out over the valley, his defiance screaming into their minds.
Awareness into the Air Particles, and Rennel scurried to backwind the jib and tighten the main.
In her haste, she backwinded her sail, and for a few frantic seconds, her sloop lay dead in the water, bobbing up and down in the crest of waves from the approaching yacht.
The jib was backwinded, sheeted to the windward side, in effect, blowing the bow down off the wind while the main and the mizzen were trying to put it up wind.
The sail backwinded with a bang which tore through boltrope and sheet.
Thunder pealed, rattling timbers in the deck, and wind sprang out of nowhere, backwinding Ballad's sails with a violence that snapped a stay.
George lectured on heeling, luffing, running, blanketing, backwinding, heading up, trimming and pointing.
Orlith landed with neat precision in the dance square, her broad pinions vaned high to avoid excessive backwinds.
His face was distinctive and easily recognizable, although in this case he was beaming genially at me from behind a broad, uncluttered walnut desk, with bookcases, framed diplomas, and an American flag in the backwound.