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Windfallen

Windfallen \Wind"fall`en\, a. Blown down by the wind.

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windfallen

a. Blown down by the wind.

Usage examples of "windfallen".

In the orchard, a few withered pippins still clung to the branches or lay windfallen in the grass.

The dimple he was waiting for appeared to the far left of the pool almost under the boughs of a windfallen grazzlenut tree.

Leaves began to flutter down and to lie yellow upon the orchard grass, where the windfallen apples rotted or were mere shells picked hollow by the blackbirds.

The manner of making their boats is thus: they burn down some great tree, or take such as are windfallen, and, putting gum and resin upon one side thereof, they set fire into it, and when it hath burned it hollow they cut out the coal with their shells, and ever where they would burn it deeper or wider they lay on gums, which burn away the timber, and by this means they fashion very fine boats, and such as will transport twenty men.

Blot struck a flint to some gathered kindling and fed a couple of larger windfallen branches into a wanning flame while Ander reviewed his notes in the mouth of the narrow, high-vaulted cavern.