snowslide

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English

Etymology

From snow +‎ slide. Compare landslide.

Noun

snowslide (plural snowslides)

  1. An avalanche of snow
    • 1943 March and April, “A British Avalanche Shelter”, in Railway Magazine, page 80:
      The particular type of avalanche against which this shelter has been designed to guard is of landslides rather than snowslides, and the G.W.R. has good reason to remember the happenings which prompted its construction.
    • 2006, Kirill Ya Kondratyev, Vladimir F. Krapivin, Costas A. Varostos, Natural Disasters as Interactive Components of Global Ecodynamics - Page 26:
      For instance, on 27 January 1993, on the Trans-Caucasian Highway, 17 people were buried under a snowslide.

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