Trade wind Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator
    trade.
    • they rode the trade winds going west

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Definitions
  1. a wind in the torrid zone, and often a little beyond at, which blows from the same quarter throughout the year, except when affected by local causes; so called because of its usefulness to navigators, and hence to trade.

Webster 1913