northwind

Noun

 * 1) * 1846, Connop Thirlwall, The History of Greece, Volume II, New Edition, Longman et al. (publishers), page 264:
 * promising to surrender them whenever they should be summoned by a fleet that should sail to them [the Pelasgians of Lemnos] from Attica in one day with a northwind.
 * promising to surrender them whenever they should be summoned by a fleet that should sail to them [the Pelasgians of Lemnos] from Attica in one day with a northwind.