stormwind

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Definition of stormwind

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A heavy wind; a wind that brings a storm.
    “Also know, that it is as possible to see the winde as the aire, their substances being too tenuous to be perceived; unlesse in a storm-winde, whose matter is an exhalation so thick that it darkens the aire:”
    “1839, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hyperion, New York: Samuel Colman, Volume 1, Book 2, Chapter 6, p. 146, […] the stormwind smites the wall of the mountain cliff […]”
    “1872, Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass, London: Macmillan, prefatory poem, Without, the frost, the blinding snow, The storm-wind’s moody madness— Within, the firelight’s ruddy glow, And childhood’s nest of gladness.”
    “That spell of sea-safety which they set much store by in the Northern Archipelago never saved a man from storm-wind or storm-wave, but, cast by one who knows the local seas and the ways of a boat and the skills of the sailor, it weaves some daily safety about the fisherman.”
    “He slashed right and left as the fallen banner was ripped apart, the thousand ragged pieces swirling away like crimson leaves in a stormwind.”

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Etymology

From storm + wind.

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