windbreak

See also: wind-break

English

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

Alternative forms

• wind-break

Etymology

wind +‎ break

Noun

windbreak (plural windbreaks)

1. (agriculture) A hedge, fence or row of trees positioned to reduce wind damage to crops.
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.

Translations

a sheet, stack of material, or screen used to protect people from wind

• Catalan: paravent m, trencavent m
• German: Windschutz m
• Irish: fál fothana m (agriculture), scáthlán gaoithe m
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• Maori: tāhokahoka, tītopa, pāhauhau
• Swedish: vindskydd (sv) n
• Welsh: atalfa wynt f

Further reading

• windbreak on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• break wind, break-wind, breakwind