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Definition of "light air" []

  • A wind with a speed of from 1 to 3 miles (2 to 5 kilometers) per hour, according to the Beaufort scale. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "light air" in a sentence
  • "'Yesterday, being becalmed, a large canoe, passing (for there was occasionally a light air from the north) from Nupani to Santa Cruz, came near us."
  • "We drew abreast the Head and I put her on another compass course; the wind was steadying down into the east, a light air to the heated land."