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ˈwhirl-blast
[f. whirl- + blast n.1; app. a word of the Cumberland dialect, for which Wordsworth is the earliest literary authority.]
A whirlwind, hurricane. Also fig.
1798Wordsw. Poems of Fancy iii, A whirl-blast from behind the hill Rushed o'er the wood. 1807Stagg Misc. Poems, Return xvi, Hark, the whurlblast loudly blusters. 1813Coleridge Nt.-Scene 77 The whirl-blast comes, the desert-sands rise up. 1820Shelley Witch Atl. xlviii, Which rain could never bend, or whirl-blast shake. 1851Mayne Reid Scalp Hunters xi, Vast towers of sand, borne up by the whirlblast, rise vertically. 1904Dowden Browning 246 There is a fixity of grief which is more appalling than this whirlblast. |