wind-rode

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wind-rode - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Wind-rode \Wind"-rode`\, a. (Naut.)
     Caused to ride or drive by the wind in opposition to the
     course of the tide; -- said of a vessel lying at anchor, with
     wind and tide opposed to each other. --Totten.
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