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of withdraw, depart, be off; but as it seems never to have been used as a nautical
term, the common view that the word is from Low Dutch lacks proof.
Trade-wind (1663), apparently originally in the phrase, ‘to blow trade’ (1591-1600), to
blow in a regular or habitual course, afterwards often shortened in nautical use to
trade, in the plural ‘the trades’; the word has nothing to do with trade in the sense of
commerce or passage for the purpose of trading, though the imp