Definition of "trade-wind" [trade-wind]

• Alternative form of trade wind. (noun)

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• "The fading trade-wind wisps sighed and rustled between longer intervals of quiescence."
• "Elsinore, by the wind, under an Alpine range of canvas, every sail set from skysails to try-sails and spanker, slipping across the surface of a mild trade-wind sea, and no hand at the wheel to guide her."
• "It did not shower up Nuuanu, and every overhead star was out in a clear trade-wind sky."