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wind-screen

[wind-skreen, win-]
–noun Chiefly British.
windshield.

Origin:
1855–60

wind⋅shield

[wind-sheeld, win-]
–noun
a shield of glass, in one or more sections, projecting above and across the dashboard of an automobile.
Also called, especially British, wind-screen.


Origin:
1900–05; wind 1 + shield
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windshield 
1902, from wind (n.) + shield. U.S. alternative to British windscreen (attested from 1905 in this sense).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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