Hedge or fence of trees designed to lessen the force of the wind and reduce erosion

Usage examples of windbreak.

Maynooth, I was drowsy, floating uneasily between waking and sleeping across the rolling miles of bogland, past windbreaks of pale trees and haggard-looking farmhouses with empty eyes.

The quince and apple trees stood almost leafless now, the pear boughs had long since stretched naked against the sky, but beside them, as a windbreak, stood a line of ancient candlebark gum trees, as green as ever.

The slidewalk came to a halt at a four-level intersection, and we stepped into the downflow and floated back down to street level, then stepped onto the expresswalk, stood behind the transparent windbreak, and secured our feet, then waited while the inevitable indecisive passenger delayed us for almost a full minute while deciding which windbreak to stand behind.

Then we talked about the garden for a while and Doc pointed to an overgrown hedge of krans aloe which he had originally used as a windbreak and which was now beginning to intrude into the garden.

Moonlight traced lighter streaks across dark ploughland and pasture, where the long windbreaks of cypress and eucalyptus caught and shaded snow.

After he had found himself beyond the first stand of windbreak trees, which had now acquired a mammoth windbreak snowdrift with a few green strands of pine needles sticking through on the leeward side, he had spread out his cloak on the snow and lain down upon it to rest for a few minutes - moving through thigh-high snow was hard and sweaty work - and when he finally stopped panting, he had strapped the brezeneden to his overboots, and started to walk.

Trees made a windbreak about the settlement: native delphi and rahab, Terran oak and acacia, Llynathawrian rasmin, Ythrian hammerbranch.

Walbushes had been trained to make a circular windbreak, and their rhizomes formed crude steps enabling one to look over the top for near-horizon observations.

Lancelot Guardians of the Faith had the good fortune to traverse farmland lined with woody windbreaks, the kind of terrain in which the Kingdomites, not the Skinks, had the advantage.

Along the length of the cyl inder she could see clearly only a few hundred meters, be cause windbreaks of saplings or bushes separated the fields.

When he opened the trunk to stow my luggage there was already a windbreak and a parasol in there, and something that looked suspiciously like a child's boogie board.

We bedded him down in the back of the Toyota on the camel hair cloth that had served as a windbreak and on a couple of djellabas.

Much sooner than he expected, the airplane appeared above the cedar tree windbreak in a slow, incredibly steep climb.

Beyond the windbreak of giant eucalyptuses, the wild canyon to the east lay in unrelieved blackness.

A thicket of intermixed pine and fir provided a thick, resinous windbreak and firewood in plenty, a small stream offered fresh water, and Bahzell accepted the Spearman's suggestion with gratitude.