lauwinen.
/ˈlɔːwᵻn/, U.S. /ˈlɔwən/, /ˈlɑwən/ An avalanche.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > snow > [noun] > rush of loose or melting snow > avalanche
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1818 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto IV xii. 9 Nations melt..and downward go Like lauwine loosen'd from the mountain's belt.
1833 Penny Cycl. I. 389 Generally termed Avalanches, or some~times lauwines.
1845 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 58 34 I see..the cliff-cradled lawine essay its first motion.
1881 J. Nichol Death Themistocles 131 Down whose slope the Lauwine thunders.
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