A tree or fruit blow down by the wind. Or a unexpected gain or acquisition.
Plain and simple, then again it goes deeper then that I speculate. If you were a serf on a feudal estate you were only allowed to gather fuel or glean produce that were on the ground. Most people carried walking stick for protection and as tools to knock things from the trees. The forest must have been as clean as a German forest. A wind storm would bring a lot of new fuel and produce down, thus a windfall is my guess. Why this logical explanation isn't apparent in the definitions is beyond me.
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Re: windfall
As a kid, we had three pecan trees in our yard. Unfortunately, I didn't like them at the time, though I love them now. Nevertheless, whenever we had a fall thunderstorm, especially with wind, the ground would be covered with fallen nuts. For whatever reason, I enjoyed retrieving them and piling them into a grocery sack. That experience is usually the first thing that comes to mind from the word "windfall."
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