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ˈbrickfielder
[f. prec. + -er1.]
Local name in Sydney, New South Wales, for a thick cloud of dust brought over the city by a south wind from neighbouring sandhills (called the ‘Brickfields’); now applied to a hot northerly wind in various regions of Australia.
1843J. Backhouse Narr. Visit Austral. Col. 3 Jan. 236 This kind of wind..is frequent in the summer, and coming upon the town from the direction of some brick-fields, has obtained the name of a Brick-fielder. 1853Fraser's Mag. XLVIII. 515 What the Sydney people call a ‘brickfielder’. 1862Clara Aspinall 3 Yrs. in Melbourne 188 A dust storm, a real ‘Brickfielder’ was blowing. 1886Cowan Charcoal Sk., The buster and brickfielder: Austral red-dust blizzard and red-hot simoom. |