单词 | whirl-blast |
释义 | whirl-blastn. A whirlwind, hurricane. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [noun] > strong or violent wind > whirlwind or tornado thodec725 storbilonc1315 whirlwinda1340 whirl-puffa1382 whirly-wind14.. rodion?a1439 tourbillion1477 trobelliona1500 hurlwind1509 typhon1555 whirler1606 travado1625 tornado1626 wild winda1661 turbo1677 vortexa1700 tornade1727 twirlwind1770 whirl-blast1800 coup de vent1831 twirlblast1865 twister1897 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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