thaw wind

noun

A cold, piercing wind from the south or south-east, which often accompanies the breaking up of a long frost.

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Meanings

nounthaw wind (plural thaw winds)

plural thaw winds

  1. ScotlandYorkshireCheshireA cold, piercing wind from the south or south-east, which often accompanies the breaking up of a long frost.

    "“These are the earliest flowers at the Heights,” she exclaimed. “They remind me of soft thaw winds, and warm sunshine, and nearly melted snow. Edgar, is there not a south wind, and is not the snow almost gone?”"

    1847, Emily Brontë, chapter XIII, in Wuthering Heights
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