windbreak
noun
- plantation made to provide shelter from the wind and to protect soil from erosion
- architectural element containing the entrance to a house
Wiktionary
noun
Etymology: From wind + break.
- A hedge, fence or row of trees positioned to reduce wind damage to crops.
- A sheet or stack of material used to protect people or fire from wind.
“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.”
“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.”
- The act of breaking wind; flatulence.
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“Another of Roy's room-clearing wind breaks snapped my head back.”