williwaws

Here I had my first experience with the terrific squalls, called williwaws, which extended from this point on through the strait to the Pacific.

Sailing Alone Around the World Joshua Slocum 1877

Hail, fog and howling williwaws blasting through jagged seaside peaks accompany Kent as he sails into 300 miles of terror marked by such place-names as Famine Reach, Desolation Bay and Last Hope Inlet.

Fury and Terror On the High Seas Geoffrey Wolff 2011

The attendant laughter gave the Bush staff a collective case of the williwaws, and White House spokesmen spun in a 180-degree gyration, from backing Quayle to praising Ms. Brown for her strong family values.

Rocky Road To Houston 2008

Tropical downpours part at my arrival, and williwaws steal in haste from my sight.

Carnivores of Light and Darkness Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2000

Fifteen minutes earlier, one of the infamous williwaws had blown in.

Arctic Fire Douglass, Keith 1997

We had the worst weather in the most desolate hole no fighting, constant williwaws when you had to crawl to the latrines because if you stood up the wind would take you to Siberia, and an entertainment program which got mixed up between Olivia De H.villand and recordings of W.H. Auden, But the main worry was women.

Dashiell Hammett: A Memoir Hellman, Lillian 1965

The williwaws, which are what they call the hard squalls off the high hills down there, were having a great time with out battle-ship topsides.

Sonnie-Boy's People 1912

The little bay was there at our feet and the wide straits off to our elbow, and the water of that bay was smooth green where it shoaled on the pebbly spit; but the straits, as far as we could see them, were one long roll of tossing ridges and scooping hollows, and they were all black except where the williwaws, cutting across the tide, would whip the ridges to a marble white.

Sonnie-Boy's People 1912

It was an exceedingly snug nook, and to make doubly sure of holding on here against all williwaws I moored her with two anchors and secured her besides, by cables to trees.

Sailing Alone Around the World Joshua Slocum 1877

We made anchorage at the cove about dark that night, while the wind came down in fierce williwaws from the mountains.

Sailing Alone Around the World Joshua Slocum 1877