Definition of "shelterbelt" []

• A barrier of trees and shrubs that protects against the wind and reduces erosion. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "You can just drop me off at the shelterbelt along the east side."
• "Baumgardner bogs down in a hellish tangle of 10-foot-tall shelterbelt."
• "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."