windbreak

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English

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Field windbreaks (1) in North Dakota protect the soil against wind erosion.

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From wind +‎ break.

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windbreak (plural windbreaks)

  1. (agriculture) A hedge, fence or row of trees positioned to reduce wind damage to crops.
    Hyponym: shelterbelt
    Coordinate terms: hedgerow, fencerow
  2. A sheet or stack of material used to protect people or fire from wind.
    • June 1964, Darrell Huff, Sun-Catching Windbreak Popular Science, Bonnier Corporation, page 112:
      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.
    • 2000, Darrell Huff, Settlement: A History Of Australian Indigenous Housing, Aboriginal Studies Press, page 19:
      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.
    • 2008, Paul Memmott, Gunyah, Goondie + Wurley: The Aboriginal Architecture of Australia, University of Queensland Press, page 62:
      A wide range of materials was used for windbreaks, including rigid bark sheets inserted in sand, piles of grass or foliage, and stone walls.
  3. The act of breaking wind; flatulence.
    • 1995, Terry Bolin, Rosemary Stanton, Wind Breaks: Coming to Terms with Flatulence:
      (see title)
    • 1996, Matt Condon, The Lulu Magnet:
      Another of Roy's room-clearing wind breaks snapped my head back.
    • 2010, Ralph Keyes, “'Windbreaks'”, in Unmentionables:
      (chapter title for chapter on flatulence)
    • 2012, Bill Tidy, Paul G. Bahn, “Wind-Breaks— Or Gone With The Wind”, in Disgraceful Archaeology:
      (see chapter title)

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