windbreak

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
19
Words With Friends
21
Letters
9

Definition of windbreak

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A hedge, fence or row of trees positioned to reduce wind damage to crops.
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noun

  1. A hedge, fence or row of trees positioned to reduce wind damage to crops.
  2. 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.”
    “A wide range of materials was used for windbreaks, including rigid bark sheets inserted in sand, piles of grass or foliage, and stone walls.”
  3. The act of breaking wind; flatulence.
    “(see title)”
    “Another of Roy's room-clearing wind breaks snapped my head back.”
    “(chapter title for chapter on flatulence)”
    “(see chapter title)”

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Etymology

From wind + break.

Anagrams of windbreak

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