backwinding

Verb (1)

backwind (third-person singular simple present backwinds, present participle backwinding, simple past and past participle backwinded)

1. To deflect air into the back of a sail or of a vessel
   • If a sailing boat's bow is pointing too high into the wind the sails backwind.

Verb (2)

backwind (third-person singular simple present backwinds, present participle backwinding, simple past and past participle backwound)

1. (transitive) To wind backwards.
   • This works because tape packs with equal diameters also have equal circumferences, therefore the distance the tape on each deck travels when backwound from the edit point is the same.1978, Educational & Industrial Television, volume 10, page 138

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