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
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 James Edward Keeler
The stars shone, and I seemed to inhale all the scents of a limitless prairie, wafted past the wind-screen from the heath and the stretch of Wimbledon Common beyond.…
From Foe-Farrell by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
The planes were to be placed above the car, and provision was even made for a glass wind-screen to give protection to the pilot during flight.
From A History of Aeronautics by Evelyn Charles Vivian
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