a. [f. as prec. + FALLEN ppl. a.] Blown down by the wind.
1612. Drayton, Poly-olb., xiii. 182. To gather wind-falne sticks.
a. 1678. in Evelyn’s Pomona, 406. That the Fruit be carefully gather’d, not windfall’n nor bruis’d.
1792. J. Belknap, Hist. New-Hampsh., III. 155. They [beaver] take advantage of wind-fallen trees.
1836. Mrs. C. P. Traill, Backw. Canada, 201. Some of the stumps of these wind-fallen trees.
fig. 1563. Winȝet, trans. Vincent. Lirin., Ded., Wks. II. 10. Ane of our windfallin brethir, laitlie snapperit in the cummerance of Caluin.
1660. Tatham, Rump, II. i. 18. Lady Bertlam, ’Twill get her nothing, She beats against the Wind. Prissilla. She’s Wind fall’n.
