Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The wind or blast of a storm or tempest; a hurricane; also, a wind that brings a storm.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A heavy wind; a wind that brings a storm; the blast of a storm.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A heavy wind; a wind that brings a storm.

Etymologies

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storm +‎ wind

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Examples

  • Wednesday, Jul. 23, 2008 @ 12: 04 a.m. Mulberry leaves in the stormwind is Blackberry, Flourish, and Blot.

    madrigle Diary Entry madrigle 2008

  • “Mulberry leaves in the stormwind, is Blackberry, Flourish, and Blot.”

    madrigle Diary Entry madrigle 2008

  • The big bang was a great stormwind blowing, and our cosmos is made from the eddies and tourbillons it has generated.

    Archive 2007-08-01 Adam Roberts Project 2007

  • The big bang was a great stormwind blowing, and our cosmos is made from the eddies and tourbillons it has generated.

    The wind blowing Adam Roberts Project 2007

  • I am doing this quest chain now that has me going back and forth between westfall, stormwind and the redrdige mountains with some story about troop support and spies and such but I lost track of the narrative pretty quickly.

    Norrath's Fictional Factions 2005

  • Giving up now doesn't seem to be a useful option. stormwind

    The Great Die-Off - Anil Dash 2004

  • Not again would she have to face a night where she was a mote caught in the stormwind of the giant barbarian's desires.

    Conan The Triumphant Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1983

  • The rest was indescribable: riding a meteorite through incandescence, shock, thunderblast, stormwind, night, mountains and caverns of cloud, rain like bullets, crazy tilting and whirling of horribly onrushing horizon, while the noise roared and battered and vibrations shook brains in skulls and devils danced on the instrument panel.

    The Rebel Worlds Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1972

  • Like the stormwind he purposed to dash into the clouds which were collecting from all sides about his head, and to break up the thunderbolts through the energy of an irresistible attack, before they were discharged.

    The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 Various

  • The sparks as if in stormwind/from mail-rings flew around.

    The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original George Henry Needler 1914

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