dustwhirl

plural dustwhirls

1. A whirl of dust.

   The wind outside raised dustwhirls and hurled them into the sky.

   2014, Obinna Udenwe, “Thursday, 11th February 2010”, in Satans and Shaitans, London: Jacaranda, →ISBN, page 81

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   Footprint in the dews of dawn, / Dustwhirl on a desert plain, / Shadow of a flickering awn / Of wheat that waits the harvest wain, / These shall last if joy remain, / Nymph, when all thy snows have thawn.

   1906, John Gurdon, “Callisto”, in Dramatic Lyrics, London: Elkin Mathews, […], →OCLC, page 66

   My mind concentrated on Whity, I drove straight through a dustwhirl and barely missed hitting six elephants.

   1969, Joy Adamson, “Whity’s rescue”, in The Spotted Sphinx, London: Collins & Harvill Press, →OCLC, pages 145–146