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English
Noun
wind-break (plural wind-breaks)
- Alternative spelling of windbreak
1950 August, “The Rimutaka Incline and Deviation, New Zealand”, in Railway Magazine, page 547:Massive timber wind-breaks were erected to protect the railway in particularly exposed locations.
Verb
wind-break (third-person singular simple present wind-breaks, present participle wind-breaking, simple past wind-broke, past participle wind-broken)
- (transitive) To break the wind of; to cause to lose breath; to exhaust.
c. 1635–1636 (date written), Iohn Ford [i.e., John Ford], The Fancies, Chast and Noble: , London: E P for Henry Seile, , published 1638, →OCLC, Act II, page 26:'Tvvould vvind-breake a moyle, or a ring'd mare, to vie burthens vvith her.
1923 October, Robert Frost, “ An Empty Threat.”, in New Hampshire , New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →OCLC, page 65:It’s not men by some mistake? / No, / There’s not a soul / For a wind-break / Between me and the North Pole— / Except always John-Joe, / My French Indian Esquimaux, […]
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