breakwind

See also: break wind and break-wind

English

Alternative forms

• break-wind

Etymology

break +‎ wind

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Noun

breakwind (plural breakwinds)

1. (Australia, New Zealand) A windbreak.
   • 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Three Go Back:

     He bent and disappeared out of the sheltering circle of the fir-fronds, returning in a moment with an armful of boughs. He went back, foraging, and she heard him snapping off others. Presently he was beside her again, and began to construct the break-wind, interweaving from the ground up to the fir-fronds a wall of boughs. Abruptly the wind ceased to blow upon Clair's back.

   • 1971, Duncan Brown, Better Fruit Growing for Australian Gardeners, page 15:

     The rows of breakwind trees should be planted at right angles to the prevailing wind, and there should be at least thirty feet between the first row of fruit trees and the breakwind trees.

Anagrams

• wind break, wind-break, windbreak