lauwine

1. (poetic, dated) An avalanche.Examples: "Once more upon the woody Apennine, / The infant Alps, which — had I not before / Gazed on their mightier parents, where the pine / Sits on more shaggy summits, and where roar / The thundering lauwine — might be worshipped more;[…]"; "1823, George Bancroft, Poems, Hilliard and Metcalf, page 10, The towers of my castle of lauwines are made; / On chambers of ice their foundations are laid; / Like loftiest pyramids rising in air, / O! who but confesses my turrets are fair."; "I see the young torrent’s first leap towards the ocean, / And the cliff-cradled lawine essay its first motion."datedpoetic