shelterbelt

noun

Etymology

From shelter + belt.

  1. derived from balteus — “belt, sword-belt
  2. inherited from *baltijaz — “girdle, belt
  3. inherited from *baltī̆
  4. inherited from belt
  5. inherited from belt
  6. compounded as shelterbelt — “shelter + belt

Definitions

  1. A row of trees that acts as a windbreak.

    • And then the engines shifted up a note and we began to descend, coming in over a wide plain carved into geometric shapes by lines of dark shelterbelt and long straight roads with their ant hordes of cars and trucks.
    • Now derelict, it is surrounded by a shelterbelt of ancient sycamore trees.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA