trade wind

[ wind ]

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noun

Also trade winds. Also called trades. any of the nearly constant easterly winds that dominate most of the tropics and subtropics throughout the world, blowing mainly from the northeast in the Northern Hemisphere, and from the southeast in the Southern Hemisphere.
any wind that blows in one regular course, or continually in the same direction.

trade wind

/ wɪnd /

a wind blowing obliquely towards the equator either from the northeast in the N hemisphere or the southeast in the S hemisphere, approximately between latitudes 30° N and S, forming part of the planetary wind system

First recorded in 1625–35

C17: from to blow trade to blow steadily in one direction, from trade in the obsolete sense: a track

We now caught the trade wind, that blows from the east, and is anxiously desired by all sailors.

We were now within the tropics, but found the heat greatly moderated by the trade wind, and only unbearable in the cabin.

It diminishes downwardly in the water, and also toward the polar sides of the trade-wind districts.

At ten or eleven oclock of the morning, the heat of the tropics lifts its hat to the Doctor as the natives call the trade-wind.

The north-east trade-wind, which began blowing during the night, was now carrying the stranger steadily along before it.

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