wind-driven

English

Adjective

wind-driven (not comparable)

  1. (of ventilation) Occurring with the presence of a wind, although a rotary wind-driven ventilator on a vehicle can also be activated by movement of the vehicle.
    • 1961 November, Hamilton Ellis, “The Eastern Region helps the frozen foods boom”, in Trains Illustrated, page 683:
      The air is circulated—up from the floor and down again through the ice-bunkers, by revolving fans connected with wind-driven rotors on the roofs.
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