blirt

plural blirts

1. nauticalA gust, as of wind and rain.

   […] and farther on he asks if the poet's resolve shall be Struck through with the blirt Of a goose breath?

   1607, Marston, "What You Will", introduction; quoted in 1886, Alden's Cyclopedia of Universal Literature, page 98

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   [page 49:] The blirt was moving in, windy and wet. Somewhere out around the Forge Town headland, lightning broke over the Amnion and rain began to fall. [page 122:] Cobbles of the traffic circus before the barbican were dry after the blirt rain, but blood smeared the stones or was draining away into the seams […]

   1999, Brian Daley, To Waters' End: Book Four of GammaLAW, Lucia St. Clair Robson, →ISBN

2. ScotlandA fit of crying.

present singular third person blirts · participle present blirting · participle past blirted · past blirted

1. ScotlandTo burst into tears.