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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 brickfielder
 又乾燥又熱的北風

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Brick·field·er n.  [Australia]
 1.  Orig., at Sydney, a cold and violent south or southwest wind, rising suddenly, and regularly preceded by a hot wind from the north; -- now usually called southerly buster. It blew across the Brickfields, formerly so called, a district of Sydney, and carried clouds of dust into the city.
 2.  By confusion, a midsummer hot wind from the north.