wind-blown

A form of windblown — Growing in a distorted shape produced by the prevailing winds.

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Meanings

adjective
  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of windblown.

    But the disadvantages of proximity to sand dunes have become apparent in the past year. War is being waged on wind-blown sand by planting marram grass.

    1961 September, “Margam yard revisited”, in Modern Railways, page 537
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    Where the ſoft tale of Love She breathes, / Mixt with the ruſhing of the wind-blown leaves, / The different Notes of Cheerful Birds, / And diſtant Bleating of the Herds: / Is Muſick far more raviſhing and ſweet, / Then all the Artful Sounds that pleaſe the noiſey Great.

    1684, A[phra] Behn, “A Farewel to Celladon, On his Going into Ireland”, in Poems upon Several Occasions: with a Voyage to the Island of Love, London: […] R[ichard] Tonson and J[acob] Tonson, […], →OCLC, stanza VI, page 17
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Chicago

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