DCHP-3

white-ash breeze

Obs.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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of canoes, boats, etc., propulsion by means of paddles or oars, as opposed to wind-filled sails.

Quotations

1853
We must raise a white-ash-breeze (meaning that we must have recourse to our paddles) or we shall not see the Nine-Mile Creek this day, I can tell you.
1854
[They] bring her [a steamboat] alongside the island and transfer passengers and freight into flat bottomed boats--to the slow but certain influence of a "white ash" breeze.