shelterbelt

English

Alternative forms

• shelter belt

Etymology

shelter +‎ belt

Noun

shelterbelt (plural shelterbelts)

1. A row of trees that acts as a windbreak
   • 1982 January, “Fighting Back the Deserts”, in China Reconstructs‎^[1], China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 40:

     “The shelterbelts here," explained 53-year-old Ma Shoushou, head of the Bayannur League sand-protection station, “are only part of a great network of shelterbelts planted in 320 counties and banners stretching over 11 provinces and autonomous regions in China’s north, northeast and northwest.

   • 2015, Fiona Farrell, The Villa at the Edge of the Empire, →ISBN, page 52:

     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.

   • 2019, Alan Staniforth, Cleveland Way, page 36:

     Now derelict, it is surrounded by a shelterbelt of ancient sycamore trees.

Translations

Translations

• Japanese: 防風林 (ja) (bōfūrin)
• Korean: 방풍림(防風林) (ko) (bangpungnim)
• Maori: pāhauhau