DCHP-3

windbreak

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1n.

anything used as a temporary barrier to break the force of the wind, especially when camping.

Quotations

1772
[In the evening we enclosed the fire with a fence of boughs to keep off the wind. . . .]
1897
The snow was cleared away from the inside of the windbreak. . . .
1908
The nights now became bitterly cold, and there were no more old lodges--only a windbreak made of the canoe and the deerskin.
1930
They drew the sleighs up to form a windbreak. . . .
2n.

a row or clump of trees serving as protection against the wind and, often, as a means of preventing soil erosion.

Quotations

1884
Lesser windbreaks are planted where larger are difficult to establish.
1927
The two-hour run from Halifax to Truro was through country [of] rolling hills and rocky ledges, scattered farms with their wind-breaks of spruce trees. . . .
1964
To protect their fields, many farmers of the Quinte area started planting trees as windbreaks and shelterbelts.