\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.