wind-break

wind-break

See also: windbreak

English

Noun

wind-break (plural wind-breaks)

1. Alternative spelling of windbreak

Verb

wind-break (third-person singular simple present wind-breaks, present participle wind-breaking, simple past wind-broke, past participle wind-broken)

1. (transitive) To break the wind of; to cause to lose breath; to exhaust.
   • c. 1635–1636 (date written), Iohn Ford [i.e., John Ford], The Fancies, Chast and Noble: […], London: […] E[lizabeth] P[urslowe] for Henry Seile, […], published 1638, OCLC 1203229687, Act II, page 26:

     'Tvvould vvind-breake a moyle, or a ring'd mare, to vie burthens vvith her.

   • 2020 January 14, Robert Frost, New Hampshire: Poems‎, Open Road Media, →ISBN:

     It's not men by some mistake? / No, / There's not a soul / For a wind-break / Between me and the North Pole— / Except always John-Joe, / My French Indian Esquimaux, […]

Anagrams

• break wind, break-wind, breakwind