wind-screen
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of wind-screen
First recorded in 1855–60
Example Sentences
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As the altimeter needle brushes five thousand feet, we crest a mud-colored ridge, the earth drops away, and a breathtaking sweep of taiga fills the Plexiglas wind-screen.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
I climbed over and sat beside him, staring in front of it through the wind-screen.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
As the car turned into a side road, flanked on either hand by elms, Mr. Doulton tapped on the wind-screen, and Tims pulled up.
From Malcolm Sage, Detective by Herbert George Jenkins
Lounging behind the wind-screen in his yellow sedan he was whirling across rural England.
From Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley
On the port side, however, a wind-screen intervened.
From His Unknown Wife by Louis Tracy
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