wind stream

English

Alternative forms

• wind-stream
• windstream

Noun

wind stream (plural wind streams)

1. A stream or current of air.
   • 1882, Thomas Hardy, chapter I, in Two on a Tower. A Romance. [...] In Three Volumes, volume II, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, […], →OCLC, page 9:

     [T]he lantern flame [...] waved and smoked in the currents of air that leaked into the dome from the fierce wind-stream without.

   • 1917, Kenneth Ward, chapter 8, in The Boy Volunteers with the French Airmen, New York: American Authors Publishing:^[1]

     [...] up where the raindrops are being formed [...] the little particles of water move along with the wind stream [...]

   • 1994, J. M. Coetzee, chapter 6, in The Master of Petersburg, London: Secker & Warburg, page 57:

     He feels like a leaf or a seed in the grip of a headlong force, a winged seed drawn up into the highest windstream, carried dizzily above the oceans.

See also

• jet stream