windflaw

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wind +‎ flaw

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windflaw (plural windflaws)

  1. A sudden, strong current of wind; flaw.
    • 1912, Jack London, chapter 8, in A Son Of The Sun:
      The front of the wind on the water was a solid, sharply defined strip of dark-coloured, wind-vexed water. In advance of this strip, like skirmishers, were flashes of windflaws.
    • 2008, Willie Nelson,, Mike Blakely, A Tale Out of Luck: A Novel‎[1], →ISBN:
      The smoke seemed to cover them all halfway to the house, but then it twisted away on a windflaw and lifted like a stage curtain.

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  • “windflaw”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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