BRICKFIELDERS

Noun

brickfielders

plural of brickfielder

Source: Wiktionary


BRICKFIELDER

Brick"field`er, n. [Australia]

1.

Definition: Orig., at Sydney, a cold and violent south or southwest wind, rising suddenly, and regularly preceded by a hot wind from the north;

– now usually called southerly buster. It blew across the Brickfields, formerly so called, a district of Sydney, and carried clouds of dust into the city.

2. By confusion, a midsummer hot wind from the north.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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