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单词 whirl-blast
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whirl-blastn.

Brit. /ˈwəːlblɑːst/, /ˈwəːlblast/, U.S. /ˈ(h)wərlˌblæst/
Etymology: < whirl- comb. form + blast n.1; apparently a word of the Cumberland dialect, for which Wordsworth is the earliest literary authority.
A whirlwind, hurricane. Also figurative.
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1800 W. Wordsworth in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads II. 96 A whirl-blast from behind the hill Rushed o'er the wood.
1807 J. Stagg Misc. Poems (new ed.) xvi Hark, the whurlblast loudly blusters.
1813 S. T. Coleridge Night-scene 77 The whirl-blast comes, the desert-sands rise up.
a1822 P. B. Shelley Witch of Atlas xlviii, in Posthumous Poems (1824) 45 Which rain could never bend, or whirl-blast shake.
1851 M. Reid Scalp Hunters I. xi. 143 Vast towers of sand—borne up by the whirl-blast—rise vertically.
1904 E. Dowden Robert Browning 246 There is a fixity of grief which is more appalling than this whirlblast.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1923; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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