DCHP-2

wind shell wind-shell DCHP-2 (August 2016)

• n. — Outdoors

  a light jacket serving as protection from the wind.

  A wind shell is a wind-proof jacket intended mostly for sports such as running, hiking, cycling and general outdoor use. Chart 1 shows that the term is most prevalent in South Africa, then Canada, but is used very widely in the English-speaking world.
  See COD-2, s.v. "shell" (6), which is marked "N Amer.", and Gage-5, s.v. "wind-shell", which is marked "Cdn", which we cannot confirm with our data.