Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A row of trees, a hedge, or a fence that serves to lessen the force of or provide shelter from the wind.
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- noun agriculture a
hedge ,fence orrow oftrees positioned to reduce wind damage to crops - noun a sheet or stack of material used to protect people or fire from wind
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Examples
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They too, were painted red, and there were some trees by them that Mr. Wood called his windbreak, because they kept the snow from drifting in the winter time.
Beautiful Joe Marshall Saunders 1904
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They too, were painted red, and there were some trees by them that Mr. Wood called his windbreak, because they kept the snow from drifting in the winter time.
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If you are considering a windy site, provide some kind of windbreak; either a physical barrier fence, trees or shrubs
Geri Miller: Harvest-to-Glass: Planning and Planting Your Own Cocktail Garden Geri Miller 2010
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If you are considering a windy site, provide some kind of windbreak; either a physical barrier fence, trees or shrubs
Geri Miller: Harvest-to-Glass: Planning and Planting Your Own Cocktail Garden Geri Miller 2010
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If you are considering a windy site, provide some kind of windbreak; either a physical barrier fence, trees or shrubs
Geri Miller: Harvest-to-Glass: Planning and Planting Your Own Cocktail Garden Geri Miller 2010
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If you are considering a windy site, provide some kind of windbreak; either a physical barrier fence, trees or shrubs
Geri Miller: Harvest-to-Glass: Planning and Planting Your Own Cocktail Garden Geri Miller 2010
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If you are considering a windy site, provide some kind of windbreak; either a physical barrier fence, trees or shrubs
Geri Miller: Harvest-to-Glass: Planning and Planting Your Own Cocktail Garden Geri Miller 2010
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I left the car and ran across some thinly wooded grassland till I came to 'a thick belt of pines that obviously served as some kind of windbreak for a habitation.
Puppet on a Chain MacLean, Alistair, 1922- 1969
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A woven hurdle or horticultural fleece will do the job and remember that a windbreak should always filter, never prevent the wind completely as it will only vortex to end up faster somewhere else.
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Windy conditions can also desiccate so erect a windbreak until they are established.
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