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  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Up-wind  \Up"-wind`\,  adv 
  Against  the  wind. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Upwind  \Up*wind"\,  v.  t. 
  To  wind  up  --Spenser. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  upwind 
  adj  :  towards  the  side  exposed  to  wind  [syn:  {weather(a)}] 
  adv  1:  toward  the  wind;  "they  were  sailing  leeward"  [syn:  {leeward}] 
  [ant:  {windward},  {windward}] 
  2:  in  the  direction  opposite  to  the  direction  the  wind  is 
  blowing;  "they  flew  upwind"  [syn:  {against  the  wind},  {into 
  the  wind}]  [ant:  {downwind}] 




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