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See also: wind-break
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windbreak (plural windbreaks)
- (agriculture) A hedge, fence or row of trees positioned to reduce wind damage to crops.
- Hyponym: shelterbelt
- 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.
- June 1964, Darrell Huff, Sun-Catching Windbreak Popular Science, Bonnier Corporation, page 112:
- 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)
Translations[edit]
hedge, fence or row of trees to reduce wind damage
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sheet, stack of material, or screen used to protect people or fire from wind
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flatulence — see flatulence
