A wind that moves in an eddy.

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1626.  Capt. Smith, Accid. Yng. Sea-men, 17. A gust, a storme,… an eddy wind.

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1647.  Ward, Simp. Cobler (ed. 3), 19. Men … that are weather-waft up and down with every eddy-wind of every new doctrine.

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1697.  Dryden, Virg. Georg., I. 505/64.

        And Chaff with eddy Winds is whirl’d around,
And dancing Leaves are lifted from the Ground.

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1715.  Desaguliers, Fires Impr., 152. Such Eddy-Winds blow from the South when we have them here at London.

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1772–84.  Cook, Voy. (1790), IV. 1218. There is … an eddy wind at S. W.

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1867.  Smyth, Sailor’s Word-bk., s.v., The eddy-wind of a sail escaping, in a curve, makes the sail abaft shiver.

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