wind-screen
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of wind-screen
First recorded in 1855–60
Example Sentences
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I climbed over and sat beside him, staring in front of it through the wind-screen.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
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
If we cannot we must shelter beneath the first wind-screen of rock we can find.
From Fix Bay'nets The Regiment in the Hills by Groome, William H. C.
I have recently fitted the lower half of the slit with a wind-screen, which has proved to be a most useful addition.
From Photographs of Nebul? and Clusters Made with the Crossley Reflector by Keeler, James Edward
It flooded the white road, and the white road was an excellent wind-screen against which the bending head of Bones was thrown into sharp relief.
From Bones in London by Wallace, Edgar
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