[f. WIND sb.1 + SHOCK sb.3]
† 1. = WIND-SHAKE sb. Also attrib. = prec. 2.
1664. Evelyn, Sylva, xxx. 94. I have seen Wind-shock-timber so exquisitely closed, as not to be discerned where the defects were. Ibid. (1679), xxvii. (ed. 3), 143. The Wind-shock is a bruise, and shiver throughout the Tree.
1797. Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3), XVIII. 868/2.
1805. Pike, Sources Mississ. (1810), 37. One of them [sc. canoes] sunk, in which was the ammunition and my baggage; this was occasioned by what is called a wind-shock.
2. A shock or disturbance of equilibrium caused by a violent gust of wind.
1913. Daily News, 7 March, 1. England must have got a bad windshock, and the machine [an aeroplane] fell like a stone.
