shelterbelt
IPA: ʃˈɛɫtɝbɛɫt
noun
- A row of trees that acts as a windbreak
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Examples of "shelterbelt" in Sentences
- Mourning doves have become abundant in shelterbelt plantings.
- You can just drop me off at the shelterbelt along the east side.
- His property held a barn, two sheds, shelterbelt as well as dugout.
- His property held a barn, two sheds, shelterbelt as well as a dugout.
- Baumgardner bogs down in a hellish tangle of 10-foot-tall shelterbelt.
- The main purpose of a windbreak or a shelterbelt is to protect areas from wind.
- If it flows over the shelterbelt, it produces turbulence which is harmful for the crops behind the belt.
- If the wind cannot pass through the shelterbelt at all, it will try to pass underneath it or over the obstacle.
- OTHER USES: The tree is used extensively as a shade or shelterbelt tree with a great tolerance of arid and harsh sites.
- Trees may be combined with agricultural crops or grazing, they may form a shelterbelt, or be planted along roads and rivers or around homesteads.
- 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.
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