WINDFALL

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

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.
n.

An unexpected legacy, or other gain. He had a mighty windfall out of doubt. B. Jonson.


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