Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A barrier of trees and shrubs that protects against the wind and reduces erosion.
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- noun A row of
trees that acts as awindbreak
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun hedge or fence of trees designed to lessen the force of the wind and reduce erosion
Etymologies
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Examples
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You can just drop me off at the shelterbelt along the east side.
Mercy Kill Lori Armstrong 2011
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You can just drop me off at the shelterbelt along the east side.
Mercy Kill Lori Armstrong 2011
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You can just drop me off at the shelterbelt along the east side.
Mercy Kill Lori Armstrong 2011
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Baumgardner bogs down in a hellish tangle of 10-foot-tall shelterbelt.
The Texas Panhandle: Home to Some of America's Best Pheasant Hunting 2008
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We'd play in and around the old farm machinery, make corncob pipes, hollyhock dolls, catch little frogs, shoot gophers, race down the gravel road to the one-room schoolhouse our parents attended, climb trees, build forts in the shelterbelt.
sense of place 2008
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Mourning doves have become abundant in shelterbelt plantings.
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OTHER USES: The tree is used extensively as a shade or shelterbelt tree with a great tolerance of arid and harsh sites.
Chapter 8 1996
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Trees may be combined with agricultural crops or grazing, they may form a shelterbelt, or be planted along roads and rivers or around homesteads.
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If it flows over the shelterbelt, it produces turbulence which is harmful for the crops behind the belt.
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If the wind cannot pass through the shelterbelt at all, it will try to pass underneath it or over the obstacle.
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