breakwind

Sometimes he contented himself with a mere "breakwind," the rocky wall of a canyon, or large ravine.

The old Santa Fe trail The Story of a Great Highway Henry Inman 1868

After plucking dry grass, and making a bed for him, placing a breakwind of boughs round, and making a fire near him, we left him for the night.

Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1 2004

Having no fire, they make a little breakwind; and Vetch, half – dozing behind this at about three in the morning, hears someone cry out "Christ!" and awakes, sweating ice.

For the term of his natural life 2004

After a total of some two hours (six miles) we arrived at a large “Oláko” or breakwind, a half-face of leafy branches, and all insisted upon a long rest.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

The same day they shifted camp, and I followed them; and on reaching their camp, I shot some crows, which pleased them so much that they made me a breakwind in the centre of their camp, and came and sat round me until such time as the crows were cooked, when they assisted me to eat them.

A Source Book of Australian History Gwendolen H. [Compiler] Swinburne

They also used to assist me in making a wurley, or breakwind, whenever they shifted camp.

A Source Book of Australian History Gwendolen H. [Compiler] Swinburne

Next we put in four substantial forked posts about 10 ft. high and 15 ft. apart, with securely fixed cross pieces, and on the top was laid a rough flat roof of brush thatch; the sides were then treated in the same way, but not so thickly, being merely intended as a breakwind.

Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students

While Hurley and I pitched the tent, Webb built a breakwind for his instrument fifty yards away.

The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Douglas Mawson 1920

At other seasons he is content with a mere breakwind.

Wild Life in the Rocky Mountains 1916

It had been the Judge's original intention to have nothing but native trees and shrubs and flowers on this summer estate, and a well-clipped hedge of saltbush at present flanked the drive, and a breakwind plantation of Tasmanian blue gum, alternated with silver wattle, ran for several hundred feet where the westerly winds had at first caught one side of the house.

In the Mist of the Mountains Ethel Sybil Turner 1915