windbreak
A hedge, fence or row of trees positioned to reduce wind damage to crops.
Noun
- A hedge, fence or row of trees positioned to reduce wind damage to crops.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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:
- (chapter title for chapter on flatulence) - 2010, Ralph Keyes, “'Windbreaks'”, in Unmentionables:
Origin
From wind + break.