wind-break

verb

To break the wind of; to cause to lose breath; to exhaust.

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Meanings

nounwind-break (plural wind-breaks)

plural wind-breaks

  1. alternativeAlternative form of windbreak.

    Massive timber wind-breaks were erected to protect the railway in particularly exposed locations.

    1950 August, “The Rimutaka Incline and Deviation, New Zealand”, in Railway Magazine, page 547
verbwind-break (third-person singular simple present wind-breaks, present participle wind-breaking, simple past wind-broke, past participle wind-broken)

present singular third person wind-breaks · participle present wind-breaking · past wind-broke · participle past wind-broken

  1. transitiveTo break the wind of; to cause to lose breath; to exhaust.

    'Tvvould vvind-breake a moyle, or a ring'd mare, to vie burthens vvith her.

    c. 1635–1636 (date written), Iohn Ford [i.e., John Ford], The Fancies, Chast and Noble: […], London: […] E[lizabeth] P[urslowe] for Henry Seile, […], published 1638, →OCLC, Act II, page 26
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    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, […]

    1923 October, Robert Frost, “[Notes.] An Empty Threat.”, in New Hampshire […], New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →OCLC, page 65
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