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Brickfielder

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Brick´field`er
n.1.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.


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