lauwine

noun

1. (dated, poetic)An avalanche.

   “Once more upon the woody Apennine, / The infant Alps, which — had I not before / Gazed on their mightier parents, where the pine / Sits on more shaggy summits, and where roar / The thundering lauwine — might be worshipped more;[…]”

   “1823, George Bancroft, Poems, Hilliard and Metcalf, page 10, The towers of my castle of lauwines are made; / On chambers of ice their foundations are laid; / Like loftiest pyramids rising in air, / O! who but confesses my turrets are fair.”

   “I see the young torrent’s first leap towards the ocean, / And the cliff-cradled lawine essay its first motion.”