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backwinding

vb. (present participle of backwind English)

Usage examples of "backwinding".

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.