Definition of Windfell
Wind"fall` (?), n. 1.
Anything blown down or off by the wind, as fruit from a tree, or the
tree itself, or a portion of a forest prostrated by a violent wind,
etc. "They became a windfall upon the sudden."
Bacon.
2. An unexpected legacy, or other gain.
He had a mighty windfall out of doubt.
B. Jonson.
Wind"fall` (?), n. 1.
Anything blown down or off by the wind, as fruit from a tree, or the
tree itself, or a portion of a forest prostrated by a violent wind,
etc. "They became a windfall upon the sudden."
Bacon.
2. An unexpected legacy, or other gain.
He had a mighty windfall out of doubt.
B. Jonson.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
WINDFALL. A legacy, or any accidental accession of property.
- The Devil's Dictionary (Ambrose Bierce)
- (countable) a fruit that has falllen from a tree naturally, as from wind
They couldn't reach the branches, so they ate the windfalls.
- (countable) a sudden large benefit; especially an influx of money
The inheritance was a windfall the likes of which he had never known.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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