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cross wind
or cross·wind
[ wind ]
noun
- a wind blowing across the course or path of a ship, aircraft, etc.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of cross wind1
First recorded in 1915–20
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Example Sentences
Netanyahu is like a man driving a car with poor wheel alignment in a gusty cross wind.
From The Daily Beast
A cross wind helped it along into the rough grass, leaving him a nasty second shot over shrubbery and trees.
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In such a cross wind station alone sufficed to decide the race, and Boyd won easily.
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Let me give him this piece of advice: very rarely slice as a remedy against a cross wind.
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Between fifteen and twenty minutes, if I don't hit too much cross wind.
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I tell you, a compass doesnt help much when theres a cross-wind.
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