breakwinds

The camp was a mere collection of breakwinds made of bark and branches, more like badly-stacked woodheaps than anything else, and the children of the soil lay basking in the sun, among the dogs and filth and refuse of the camp, or crouched over small fires as if it were bitter cold.

The Moving Finger A Trotting Christmas Eve at Warwingie Lost! The Loss of the "Vanity" Dick Stanesby's Hutkeeper The Yanyilla Steeplechase A Digger's Christmas Mary Gaunt

They obeyed me, and soon were lost to view in the dark of the osage and quince hedges grown as breakwinds on the west of Grosvenor's orangery.

Some Everyday Folk and Dawn Miles Franklin 1916

These did include gunyah and gibber-gunyah, which recognized that they had places of habitation, also given the English names of breakweathers, or breakwinds, or known as huts.

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 3 1993