across-wind

Updated: July 12, 2026

In the winter Lutra had imperceptibly acquired the habit of swimming and diving across-stream, just as an old fox, when hunting in the woods, quarters his ground systematically across-wind, and so detects the slightest scent that may be wafted on the breeze. Nature had been specially kind to her; she was fashioned perfectly, and in the river reigned supreme.

Alfred Wellesley Rees - Creatures of the Night: A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain