downwind

[ doun-wind ]

/ ˈdaʊnˈwɪnd /

in the direction toward which the wind is blowing: We coasted downwind.

on or toward the lee side: The lion was running downwind of us and caught our scent.

moving downwind: a downwind current.

situated on or toward the lee side: The downwind halyard blew outboard.

Compare upwind.

Origin of downwind

First recorded in 1850–55; down¹ + wind¹

Poison comes out of a smokestack and, downwind, birds fall from the sky.

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And when a buffalo ran, he ran into the wind, not downwind, like the deer.

The Young Alaskans on the Missouri |Emerson Hough
Well, just remember this then, never make a downwind landing with a seaplane in a wind blowing over eighteen miles an hour.

Dorothy Dixon Wins Her Wings |Dorothy Wayne
Note that this was downwind for him, and that rhinoceroses usually escape upwind.

The Land of Footprints |Stewart Edward White

The downwind portion of the dune, the lee slope, is commonly a 35 steep avalanche slope referred to as a slipface.

Deserts |A. S. Walker
Saltation is downwind movement of particles in a series of jumps or skips.

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downwind

/ (ˈdaʊnˈwɪnd) /

in the same direction towards which the wind is blowing; with the wind from behind

towards or on the side away from the wind; leeward