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English Dictionary: windfall	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for windfall
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
windfall n fruit that has fallen from the tree a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money); "the demand for testing has created a boom for those unregulated laboratories where boxes of specimen jars are processed like an assembly line" Synonym(s): boom, bonanza, gold rush, gravy, godsend, manna from heaven, windfall, bunce
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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. [bd]They became a windfall upon the sudden.[b8] --Bacon. 2. An unexpected legacy, or other gain. He had a mighty windfall out of doubt. --B. Jonson.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Windfall, IN Zip code(s): 46076