All 3 Uses of
trade winds
in
Moby Dick
- The tranced ship indolently rolls; the drowsy trade winds blow; everything resolves you into languor.†
Chpt 34-36 *
- Making so long a passage through such unfrequented waters, descrying no ships, and ere long, sideways impelled by unvarying trade winds, over waves monotonously mild; all these seemed the strange calm things preluding some riotous and desperate scene.†
Chpt 124-126
- These warm Trade Winds, at least, that in the clear heavens blow straight on, in strong and steadfast, vigorous mildness; and veer not from their mark, however the baser currents of the sea may turn and tack, and mightiest Mississippies of the land swift and swerve about, uncertain where to go at last.†
Chpt 133-135
Definition:
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(trade winds) any surface winds that blow along a regular course with relatively regularly -- especially strong easterly winds that blow through the tropics and subtropics