[f. prec. + -ER1.] Local name in Sydney, New South Wales, for a thick cloud of dust brought over the city by a south wind from neighboring sandhills (called the ‘Brickfields’).
1853. Fraser’s Mag., XLVIII. 515. What the Sydney people call a brickfielder.’
1862. Clara Aspinall, 3 Yrs. in Melbourne, 188. A dust-storm—a real ‘Brickfielder’—was blowing, so that the face of vegetable nature was completely hidden from my view.
1886. Cowan, Charcoal Sk. The buster and brickfielder: Austral red-dust blizzard and red-hot simoom.
