shelterbelt

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Etymology

From shelter +‎ belt.

Noun

shelterbelt (plural shelterbelts)

  1. A row of trees that acts as a windbreak
    • 1982 January, “Fighting Back the Deserts”, in China Reconstructs‎, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 40:
      “The shelterbelts here," explained 53-year-old Ma Shoushou, head of the Bayannur League sand-protection station, “are only part of a great network of shelterbelts planted in 320 counties and banners stretching over 11 provinces and autonomous regions in China’s north, northeast and northwest.
    • 2015, Fiona Farrell, The Villa at the Edge of the Empire, →ISBN, page 52:
      And then the engines shifted up a note and we began to descend, coming in over a wide plain carved into geometric shapes by lines of dark shelterbelt and long straight roads with their ant hordes of cars and trucks.
    • 2019, Alan Staniforth, Cleveland Way, page 36:
      Now derelict, it is surrounded by a shelterbelt of ancient sycamore trees.

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