Definition of "land-wind" [land-wind]

• A wind blowing from the land. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Thus at St. Isabel or Clarence, Fernando Po, where the land-wind or the sea-breeze ever blows, the vicious little wretches are hardly known; on the forested background of mountain they are troublesome as at Nigerian Nufe."
• "The river is now three quarters of a mile wide, and the charming cove shows the brightest of sands and the densest of vegetation waving in the cool land-wind."
• "This is our second day of Khamsin; yet on the northern slope of the great Fiumara we meet the cool land-wind."