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Webster 1913 Edition

Limbat

Lim′bat

(lĭm′băt)

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Noun.

[Etymol. uncertain.]

A cooling periodical wind in the Isle of Cyprus, blowing from the northwest from eight o’clock,

A. M.

, to the middle of the day or later.

Webster 1828 Edition

Limbat

LIM'BAT

,

Noun.

A cooling periodical wind in the isle of Cyprus, blowing from the north west from eight o'clock, A.M. to the middle of the day or later.

Definition 2024

limbat

limbat

English

Noun

limbat

(archaic) A periodic cooling wind in Cyprus, blowing from the northwest.
(Can we find and add a quotation of Frederic Henry Fisher to this entry?)
- 1797, Robert Heron, A Collection of Late Voyages and Travels
  The heats increase as the summer advances, and would be altogether intolerable, if a cooling wind called limbat did not arise.
- 1807, Andrew Mackay, The Complete Navigator
  There are various other periodical winds: of these, however, that generally known by the name of limbat, which is common in the island of Cyprus, shall only be mentioned here.