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Brickfielder
Webster's Dictionary
(1):
(n.) By confusion, a midsummer hot wind from the north.
(2):
(n.) 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.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Brickfielder'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​b/brickfielder.html. 1828.