Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Blown down by the wind.

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  • adjective Blown down by the wind.

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  • adjective Blown down by the wind.

Etymologies

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wind +‎ fallen

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Examples

  • We have been picking windfallen sloe from the trees in the garden almost every day for a couple weeks now.

    grouse Diary Entry grouse 2006

  • Nature had provided a fine little valley with tiny springs trickling out of the hillside at the back, which the current dwellers had diverted into a series of three pools; what nature had not provided, the Tayledras had fashioned, constructing temporary, ground-built ekeles with stone, spools of cord, windfallen tree trunks, carefully tended vines, and the canvas of their tents as roofs.

    Owlflight Lackey, Mercedes 1997

  • A few minutes later, Blot struck a flint to some gathered kindling and fed a couple of larger windfallen branches into a wanning flame while Ander reviewed his notes in the mouth of the narrow, high-vaulted cavern.

    The Dragons at War Weis, Margaret 1996

  • A few minutes later, Blot struck a flint to some gathered kindling and fed a couple of larger windfallen branches into a wanning flame while Ander reviewed his notes in the mouth of the narrow, high-vaulted cavern.

    The Dragons at War Weis, Margaret 1996

  • She fetched up into a dead end, a narrow, leaf-walled wash barriered with a windfallen tree, and Nikolai had to climb over the trunk to reach her head.

    The Goblin Mirror Cherryh, C. J. 1992

  • She was still traveling through woodlands, but the forest was now made up of black spruce and groundcover of reindeer moss that spread a greenishmauve color over broken stumps and windfallen trees.

    Moonheart De Lint, Charles, 1951- 1990

  • She seemed to have a passion for treading upon things which would scrunch or yield under her foot, such as flowers, little windfallen apples and pears, acorns, etc., or heaps of hay, straw or cut grass.

    Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy Havelock Ellis 1899

  • Those that understand the proper management of uncleared land, usually underbrush (that is, cut down all the small timbers and brushwood), while the leaf is yet on them; this is piled in heaps, and the windfallen trees are chopped through in lengths, to be logged up in the spring with the winter's chopping.

    The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters From The Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America Catharine Parr Strickland Traill 1850

  • Breathless and speechless in her wild affright, she pointed, with a glance over her shoulder, to a thick, high tangle of large, strongly limbed, knotty, windfallen trees, a short distance behind her, and fled past him to the rear.

    Gaut Gurley D. P. Thompson 1831

  • The manner of making their boats is thus: they burn down some great tree, or take such as are windfallen, and, putting gum and resin upon one side thereof, they set fire into it, and when it hath burned it hollow they cut out the coal with their shells, and ever where they would burn it deeper or wider they lay on gums, which burn away the timber, and by this means they fashion very fine boats, and such as will transport twenty men.

    The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10 John [Editor] Rudd 1885

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