Dictionary

windbreak en · NOUN

Etymology

From wind + break.

Meanings

1. 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.
   • 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:
   • 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
   • 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:
3. The act of breaking wind; flatulence.
   • (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:
   • Another of Roy's room-clearing wind breaks snapped my head back. 1996, Matt Condon, The Lulu Magnet:
   • (see title) 1995, Terry Bolin, Rosemary Stanton, Wind Breaks: Coming to Terms with Flatulence:

Forms

Coordinates

hedgerow · fencerow

Deriveds

windbreaked

Translations (24)

hu mezővédő erdősáv (hedge, fence or row of trees to reduce wind damage) · fi tuulensuojaistutus (hedge, fence or row of trees to reduce wind damage) · bg преграда срещу вятъра (hedge, fence or row of trees to reduce wind damage) · sv vindskydd (sheet, stack of material, or screen used to protect people or fire from wind) · ca tallavent (hedge, fence or row of trees to reduce wind damage) · mi tītopa (sheet, stack of material, or screen used to protect people or fire from wind) · de Windschutzstreifen (hedge, fence or row of trees to reduce wind damage) · ca trencavent (hedge, fence or row of trees to reduce wind damage) · mi pāhauhau (sheet, stack of material, or screen used to protect people or fire from wind) · fr brise-vent (hedge, fence or row of trees to reduce wind damage) · nl windscherm (sheet, stack of material, or screen used to protect people or fire from wind) · bg заслон (sheet, stack of material, or screen used to protect people or fire from wind) · ga scáthlán gaoithe (sheet, stack of material, or screen used to protect people or fire from wind) · de Windschutz (sheet, stack of material, or screen used to protect people or fire from wind) · mi āhau (sheet, stack of material, or screen used to protect people or fire from wind) · ca paravent (hedge, fence or row of trees to reduce wind damage) · ca trencavent (sheet, stack of material, or screen used to protect people or fire from wind) · ca tallavent (sheet, stack of material, or screen used to protect people or fire from wind) · ga fál fothana (sheet, stack of material, or screen used to protect people or fire from wind) · cy atalfa wynt (sheet, stack of material, or screen used to protect people or fire from wind) · fi tuulensuoja (sheet, stack of material, or screen used to protect people or fire from wind) · ca paravent (sheet, stack of material, or screen used to protect people or fire from wind) · ru лесополоса́ (hedge, fence or row of trees to reduce wind damage) · mi tāhokahoka (sheet, stack of material, or screen used to protect people or fire from wind)