Definition of "wind-pressure" [wind-pressure]

• The pressure of the wind on any object in its path. (noun)
• In organ-building, the degree of compression in the compressed air in the storage-bellows and the wind-chests. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "With the wind-pressure thus eased aft, the stern could more easily swing against the wind while the wind-pressure on the for'ard-sails paid the bow off."
• "A night of calm, when sleep is well-nigh impossible in the sultry, muggy air, may be followed by a day of blazing sun and an oily swell from the south'ard, connoting great gales in that area of ocean we are sailing toward -- or all day long the Elsinore, under an overcast sky, royals and sky sails furled, may plunge and buck under wind-pressure into a short and choppy head-sea."
• "It was good again to feel the Elsinore yielding to the wind-pressure on her canvas, to feel her again slipping and sliding through the water in an easy sea."