ppl. a. Also 4 -dryve, -drive. [f. WIND sb.1 + DRIVEN.] Driven, carried, impelled or propelled by the wind.

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1387.  Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), VI. 137. Seyllynge in þe see he was wynd dryven into Affrica.

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1390.  Gower, Conf., III. 49. Wynddrive he was al soudeinly Upon the strondes of Cilly.

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c. 1595.  Capt. Wyatt, R. Dudley’s Voy. W. Ind. (Hakl. Soc.), 16. Huge mountaines of windedriven sandes.

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a. 1604.  Hanmer, Chron. Irel. (1809), 174. Certaine tall ships of theirs were wind-driven thither.

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1629.  H. Burton, Truth’s Tri., 345. St. Iames compares the faithlesse man to the winde-driuen waue.

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a. 1680.  Butler, Rem., Refl. Milford-Haven (1759), I. 412. That Enemy, that would invade it, and were wind-driven on the British Coast.

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1787.  Burns, Extempore in Crt. Sess., ii. Like wind-driv’n hail, it did assail.

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1859.  H. Kingsley, G. Hamlyn, xliv. The harbour was a sheet of wind-driven foam.

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1900.  H. Sutcliffe, Shameless Wayne, i. To brush away a cobweb, wind-driven against her cheek.

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1906.  Cornford, Defenceless Islands, 75. Ships, coal-driven instead of wind-driven.

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