Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A melting of snow; a thaw.
- noun In forestry, the breaking of trees by snow.
- noun An area on which trees have been broken by snow.
- noun See
shelter-belt .
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Examples
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Farther up the headland, other workers were building a plow-shaped snowbreak intended to divert blowing, drifting snow into the valley of the eastern fork of the Hainlin, away from both the wall and the powerhouse on the Husgen side.
Doomstalker Cook, Glen 1985
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And so, like snowbreak from the mountains, for every staircase is
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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But it also doesn’t stop the avalanche for the snowflake to say I’ll just keep on going down this mountain until the government builds a snowbreak.
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