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Windbreak

noun
1.
Hedge or fence of trees designed to lessen the force of the wind and reduce erosion.  Synonym: shelterbelt.





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"Windbreak" Quotes from Famous Books



... turn. Just north of it, far back from both roads, another farmyard. Behind it—to the north, stretched out, a long windbreak of poplars, with a gap or a vista in its centre. Barn and outbuildings were unpainted, the house white; a not unpleasing group, but something slovenly about it. I saw with my mind's eye numerous children, rather neglected, uncared for, an overworked, sickly woman, a man who ...
— Over Prairie Trails • Frederick Philip Grove


Words linked to "Windbreak" :   hedge, hedgerow


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