Usually means: Wind blowing from behind direction.
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  1. backwind: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. backwind: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. backwind: Wiktionary
  4. backwind: Infoplease Dictionary
  5. backwind: Dictionary.com
  6. backwind: Merriam-Webster.com

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  2. Backwind, Backwind: Latitude Mexico

Definitions from Wiktionary (backwind)

verb:  (nautical) To deflect air into the back of a sail or of a vessel
noun:  (nautical) The flow of air so deflected
verb:  (transitive) To wind backwards.

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