Definitions for cross-wind

cross-wind cross wind

Spelling: [wind]
IPA: /wɪnd/

Cross-Wind is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 312 anagrams from letters in cross-wind (-cdinorssw).

Definitions for cross-wind

noun

  1. a wind blowing across the course or path of a ship, aircraft, etc.

Origin of cross-wind

First recorded in 1915-20

Examples for cross-wind

The effect of a cross wind is to drive the stern of a boat to leeward, and to bring her bows up into the wind.

A cross wind helped it along into the rough grass, leaving him a nasty second shot over shrubbery and trees.

In such a cross wind station alone sufficed to decide the race, and Boyd won easily.

Thus we see that in 130 yards the most roughly-marked ball in a cross wind is deflected twelve yards.

In this passage Ulysses represents himself as a mariner, driven by some cross wind out of his course into Ithaca.

Let me give him this piece of advice: very rarely slice as a remedy against a cross wind.

Word Value for cross-wind
Scrable

7

Words with friends

8

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