The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wind-break \Wind"-break`\, n. A clump of trees serving for a protection against the force of wind. [Local, U. S.]
Wind-break \Wind"-break`\, v. t. To break the wind of; to cause to lose breath; to exhaust.
'T would wind-break a mule to vie burdens with her.
--Ford.
Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of windbreak English) vb. (context transitive English) To break the wind of; to cause to lose breath; to exhaust.
Usage examples of "wind-break".
The sound of the American gunfire came over the wind-broken water like a growl of thunder, then the lugger was spinning about, sails rippling as the American skipper let his speed carry him through the winds eye, until, taut on the opposite tack, he headed back past the brigs counter towards the fleet of chasse-marees.
The universe, in fact, began with the sound of a duck call, followed by a whistle and an enormous cosmic wind-break.
Finally the Eskimos stopped in a gully by a little patch of spruce brush four or five feet high, and while Iksialook foraged for handfuls of brush that was dry enough to burn, Potokomik and Kumuk cut snow blocks, which they built into a circular wall about three feet high, as a wind-break in which to sleep, and Easton and I broke some green brush to throw upon the snow in this circular wind-break for a bed.
He climbed the rain-soaked ratlines, negotiated the lubber's hole and trained his telescope north, but he could see nothing except a wind-broken sea and a mass of clouds on the horizon.
He climbed the rain-soaked ratlines, negotiated the lubber’s hole and trained his telescope north, but he could see nothing except a wind-broken sea and a mass of clouds on the horizon.