stormwind

English

Alternative forms

• storm-wind

Etymology

storm +‎ wind

Noun

stormwind (plural stormwinds)

1. A heavy wind; a wind that brings a storm.
   • 1635, John Swan, Speculum Mundi‎, Cambridge University Press, Chapter 5, Section 2, p. 177:

     Also know, that it is as possible to see the winde as the aire, their substances being too tenuous to be perceived; unlesse in a storm-winde, whose matter is an exhalation so thick that it darkens the aire:

   • 1839, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hyperion, New York: Samuel Colman, Volume 1, Book 2, Chapter 6, p. 146,

     the stormwind smites the wall of the mountain cliff

   • 1872, Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass, London: Macmillan, prefatory poem,

     Without, the frost, the blinding snow,

     The storm-wind’s moody madness—

     Within, the firelight’s ruddy glow,

     And childhood’s nest of gladness.

   • 1968, Ursula K. Le Guin, chapter 8, in A Wizard of Earthsea, New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, published 2012, page 155:

     That spell of sea-safety which they set much store by in the Northern Archipelago never saved a man from storm-wind or storm-wave, but, cast by one who knows the local seas and the ways of a boat and the skills of the sailor, it weaves some daily safety about the fisherman.

   • 1998, George R. R. Martin, A Clash of Kings‎, New York: Bantam, published 1999, page 447:

     He slashed right and left as the fallen banner was ripped apart, the thousand ragged pieces swirling away like crimson leaves in a stormwind.

Anagrams

• wind storm, windstorm