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snowslide en · NOUN

Etymology

From snow + slide. Compare landslide.

Meanings

1. An avalanche of snow
   • The particular type of avalanche against which this shelter has been designed to guard is of landslides rather than snowslides, and the G.W.R. has good reason to remember the happenings which prompted its construction. 1943 March and April, “A British Avalanche Shelter”, in Railway Magazine, page 80:
   • For instance, on 27 January 1993, on the Trans-Caucasian Highway, 17 people were buried under a snowslide. 2006, Kirill Ya Kondratyev, Vladimir F. Krapivin, Costas A. Varostos, Natural Disasters as Interactive Components of Global Ecodynamics - Page 26:

Forms

Translations (6)

ba шыуышма (avalanche of snow) · ba күскен (avalanche of snow) · it slavina (avalanche of snow) · ba лайғы (avalanche of snow) · bg лавина (avalanche of snow) · ba ҡар ишелмәһе (avalanche of snow)