downwind

downwind [doun-wind] ExamplesWord Origin adverb

1. in the direction toward which the wind is blowing: We coasted downwind.
2. on or toward the lee side: The lion was running downwind of us and caught our scent.

adjective

3. moving downwind: a downwind current.
4. situated on or toward the lee side: The downwind halyard blew outboard.

Compare upwind. Origin of downwind First recorded in 1850–55; down1 + wind1 Examples from the Web for downwind Contemporary Examples of downwind

Poison comes out of a smokestack and, downwind, birds fall from the sky.

Green Politics Has to Get More Radical, Because Anything Less Is Impractical

Jedediah Purdy

April 26, 2014

Historical Examples of downwind

And when a buffalo ran, he ran into the wind, not downwind, like the deer.

The Young Alaskans on the Missouri

Emerson Hough

But they were downwind from it and it went elsewhere in search of prey.

A World Called Crimson

Darius John Granger

Saltation is downwind movement of particles in a series of jumps or skips.

Deserts

A. S. Walker

Note that this was downwind for him, and that rhinoceroses usually escape upwind.

The Land of Footprints

Stewart Edward White

Well, just remember this then, never make a downwind landing with a seaplane in a wind blowing over eighteen miles an hour.

Dorothy Dixon Wins Her Wings

Dorothy Wayne

British Dictionary definitions for downwind downwind adverb, adjective

1. in the same direction towards which the wind is blowing; with the wind from behind
2. towards or on the side away from the wind; leeward