windbreak
nounEtymology From wind + break.
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Agriculture, Business, Lifestyle A hedge, fence or row of trees positioned to reduce wind damage to crops.
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A sheet or stack of material used to protect people or fire from wind.
- I built my windbreak on a second-story wooden deck, as you can see above, but it would work just as well at ground level.June 1964, Darrell Huff, Sun-Catching Windbreak Popular Science, Bonnier Corporation, page 112
- Although Birdibil was warm in his family wungkurr or windbreak that night, lying next to a crackling fire and covered with some paperbark blankets (kawan), he had little sleep.2000, Darrell Huff, Settlement: A History Of Australian Indigenous Housing, Aboriginal Studies Press, page 19:
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- A wide range of materials was used for windbreaks, including rigid bark sheets inserted in sand, piles of grass or foliage, and stone walls.2008, Paul Memmott, Gunyah, Goondie + Wurley: The Aboriginal Architecture of Australia, University of Queensland Press, page 62:
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The act of breaking wind; flatulence.
- (see title)1995, Terry Bolin, Rosemary Stanton, Wind Breaks: Coming to Terms with Flatulence:
- Another of Roy's room-clearing wind breaks snapped my head back.1996, Matt Condon, The Lulu Magnet:
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- (chapter title for chapter on flatulence)2010, Ralph Keyes, “'Windbreaks'”, in Unmentionables:
- (see chapter title)2012, Bill Tidy, Paul G. Bahn, “Wind-Breaks— Or Gone With The Wind”, in Disgraceful Archaeology: