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Windfall II — is a horse that has competed internationally in the equestrian sport of eventing. *Foaled: 1992 *Sex: Stallion *Color: Black *Markings: none *Height: 16.3 hh (170cm) *Breed: Registered Trakehner *Breeding: by Habicht, out of Wundermaedel by… … Wikipedia
Windfall — could refer to:* A windfall gain * Windfall (1935 film), a 1935 film with Googie Withers * Windfall (film), a 1955 comedy film with Lionel Jeffries * Windfall (album), an album by Rick Nelson * Windfall II, a horse * Windfall (comics), a DC… … Wikipedia
windfall — wind‧fall [ˈwɪndfɔːl ǁ fɒːl] noun [countable] FINANCE an amount of money that a person or business gets unexpectedly: • Falling interest rates are a windfall for homeowners refinancing their mortgages. • The group earned a windfall profit on the… … Financial and business terms
Windfall — Wind fall , n. 1. 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. [1913 Webster] 2. An unexpected legacy … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Windfall — Windfall, s.u. Windbruch … Pierer's Universal-Lexikon
Windfall — Windfall, s. Windbruch … Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon
windfall — index profit Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
windfall — (n.) mid 15c., from WIND (Cf. wind) (n.) + FALL (Cf. fall) (n.1). Originally literal, in reference to wood or fruit blown down by the wind, and thus free to all. Figurative sense of unexpected acquisition is recorded from 1540s … Etymology dictionary
windfall — [n] jackpot, profit bonanza, bonus, find, fortune, gift from the gods*, godsend, gravy*, lucky find, money from heaven*, pennies from heaven*, stroke of luck; concepts 337,679 … New thesaurus
windfall — ► NOUN 1) an apple or other fruit blown from a tree by the wind. 2) a piece of unexpected good fortune, especially a legacy … English terms dictionary
windfall — [wind′fôl΄] n. 1. something blown down by the wind, as fruit from a tree 2. any unexpected acquisition, gain, or stroke of good luck … English World dictionary
