Brickfielder

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.]