The Collaborative International Dictionary
Up-wind
Up-wind \Up"-wind`\, adv. Against the wind; toward the direction from which the wind is blowing.
Usage examples of "up-wind".
Her decks were a smoking shambles of ripped and twisted metal and over her up-wind side hung the lines by which part of her crew had taken to the sea.
The boat was moving almost directly up-wind and so had not bothered raising her one sail, but from the mast she was flying a large banner of blue silk blazoned with a white insignia, a roundish shape that like the art of the Mahometans did not seem to be a literal depiction of anything in particular, but might have been thrown together by a man who had seen a flower once.