Wiktionary
vb. (context nautical English) To blow with increasing freshness.
Usage examples of "breeze up".
The sky was bright and fine, and a soft breeze up the valley brought him the scent of deer and rabbits, quail and dove, a thousand distinct smells, of water and earth and trees.
With the sun down and the breeze up, they were soon lying on their backs in mummybags.
But there is a cool breeze up here, and once they have protected their heads with makeshift burnooses, it's not so bad.
The Harpy brought the breeze up with her, and was soon within range.
A sail it was, but the eddying breeze up there streamed the rest of the hoist directly away from the ship.
The Leopard stood off and on for some time after Stephen had given up hope of seeing anything at a distance, and in spite of the apparently immobile fog her topgallantsails caught enough breeze up there to send her along at a comfortable pace, so that she came about easily at the end of each of her short boards.
There had been a great bank of cloud rising astern, which had looked as if it were going to breeze up still more.
A stiff salt breeze up from the bay carried a touch of coolness, for a wonder, but the night felt oppressive to Nyna-eve.
A stiff salt breeze up from the bay carried a touch of coolness, for a wonder, but the night felt oppressive to Nynaeve.
There was a real breeze up here, not much, but as refreshing as a cold shower after the stifling heat of the streets.
The breeze up the cliff face rustled the leaves on three willow-type branches set in a beautiful mustard-yellow vase that sat on a low wood dais against the west wall.