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Windbreak vs Fencing - What's the difference?

windbreak | fencing |

As nouns the difference between windbreak and fencing

is that windbreak is a hedge, fence or row of trees positioned to reduce wind damage to crops while fencing is the art or sport of duelling with swords, especially with the 17th to 18th century European dueling swords and the practice weapons decended from them (sport fencing.

As a verb fencing is

present participle of lang=en.

windbreak

English

Noun

(wikipedia windbreak) (en noun)
  • (agriculture) a hedge, fence or row of trees positioned to reduce wind damage to crops
  • a sheet or stack of material used to protect people or fire from wind
  • * June 1964 , Darrell Huff, Sun-Catching Windbreak Popular Science, Bonnier Corporation, page 112:
  • I built my windbreak on a second-story wooden deck, as you can see above, but it would work just as well at ground level.
  • * 2000 , Darrell Huff, Settlement: A History Of Australian Indigenous Housing , Aboriginal Studies Press, page 19:
  • Although Birdibil was warm in his family wungkurr'' or windbreak that night, lying next to a crackling fire and covered with some paperbark blankets (''kawan ), he had little sleep.
  • * 2008 , Paul Memmott, Gunyah, Goondie + Wurley: The Aboriginal Architecture of Australia , University of Queensland Press, page 62:
  • A wide range of materials was used for windbreaks , including rigid bark sheets inserted in sand, piles of grass or foliage, and stone walls.

    Anagrams

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    fencing

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

  • The art or sport of duelling with swords, especially with the 17th to 18th century European dueling swords and the practice weapons decended from them (sport fencing)
  • * 1973 , Alan Dundes, Mother Wit from the Laughing Barrel (page 253)
  • The pair both want to touch each other, and indulge in a series of fencings and parryings in the hope of attaining their desire.
  • Material used to make fences, fences used as barriers or an enclosure.
  • Fencing was erected around the field to keep the horses in.

    Derived terms

    * geofencing

    See also

    * (wikipedia)