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Windstorm   /wˈɪndstˌɔrm/   Listen
Windstorm

noun
1.
A storm consisting of violent winds.





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"Windstorm" Quotes from Famous Books



... frequent earthquakes, flash floods, landslides, volcanic activity; hot, driving windstorm called khamsin occurs in ...
— The 1998 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... story of ghosts came along once and stopped at the post, and after that Indians and whites came and went as pleased them. But everybody was afraid to do any harm to the place, or to take permanent possession, and there the dilapidated building stood until about the time of the Revolution, when a windstorm razed ...
— On the Trail of Pontiac • Edward Stratemeyer
... in the chill of a spring rain and windstorm the Fighting Forty and certain of the mill crew gave themselves to the labor of connecting the slanting stone cribs so strongly, by means of heavy timbers chained end to end, that the pressure of a break in the jam might not sweep aside the defenses. Wallace Carpenter, ...
— The Blazed Trail • Stewart Edward White


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