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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Brickfielder \Brick"field`er\, n. [Australia]
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.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. By confusion, a midsummer hot wind from the north.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]