storm-blast

noun

A sudden, violent gust of wind or a localized, highly forceful storm.

Meanings

nounstorm-blast (plural storm-blasts)

plural storm-blasts

  1. A sudden, violent gust of wind or a localized, highly forceful storm.

    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
    1 more example

    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
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