Usually means: No movement in the air.
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  1. dead-wind, dead wind: Wordnik
  2. dead wind: Wiktionary
  3. Dead wind: Dictionary.com
  4. Dead Wind: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  5. dead wind: FreeDictionary.org
  6. Dead wind: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ noun:  (nautical) A wind directly ahead, or opposed to the ship's course.

Similar:
windage, headwind, winde, wind'ard, stress of weather, westerly, williwau, larboard, vapor, vendavel, more...

Opposite:
headwind, tailwind, breeze, gust, draft

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Similar:
windage, headwind, winde, wind'ard, stress of weather, westerly, williwau, larboard, vapor, vendavel, more...

Opposite:
headwind, tailwind, breeze, gust, draft



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