"foul wind" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: foul winds [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} foul wind (plural foul winds)
  1. (nautical) A wind blowing against the direction of travel. Categories (topical): Nautical, Wind Translations (wind against traveled direction): vastatuuli (Finnish), vent défavorable [masculine] (French), רוּחַ נֶגְדִית (ruakh negdit) [feminine] (Hebrew), vento ponteiro [masculine] (Portuguese), встре́чный ве́тер (vstréčnyj véter) [masculine] (Russian), motvind [common-gender] (Swedish)

Inflected forms

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