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whirlblast en · NOUN

Etymology

From whirl + blast.

Meanings

1. (archaic, poetic) A whirlwind.
   • The breakers rave; the whirlblasts roar; / The mingled rage of seas and skies / Bursts on the low and lonely shore[…] 1829, Thomas Love Peacock, The Misfortunes of Elphin:
   • But now, how easily might these, dashing out on Lafayette, snatch off the Hereditary Representative; and roll away with him, after the manner of a whirl-blast, whither they listed! 1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter I, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume II (The Constitution), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book IV (Varennes), pages 151–152:

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