What does catch wind of mean?

catch wind of

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.55 in modern English

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"One of her chief informants is Alicent’s handmaiden Talya (Alexis Rabin), whose inside info runs so deep that she’s the first to catch wind of Viserys’ death."

catches wind of (present, singular) catching wind of (participle, present) caught wind of (participle, past) caught wind of (past)

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