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storm-blast en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. A sudden, violent gust of wind or a localized, highly forceful storm.
    • And now the storm-blast came, and he Was tyrannous and strong: He struck with his o'ertaking wings, And chased us south along. 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner:
    • Whirlwind of passing might that twists the stems with its storm-blasts 1905, Nathan Haskell Dole, “Caius Valerius Catullus”, in The Latin Poets: An Anthology, page 87:

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