lawine
lawine is the alternative form of lauwine.
Meaning of lauwine
Noun
lauwine (plural lauwines)
- An avalanche.
- 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;[…]1812–1818, Lord Byron, “(please specify |canto=I to IV)”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. A Romaunt, London: […] [F]or John Murray, […]; William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and John Cumming, Dublin; by...
Forms of lawine
| plural | lawines |
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Questions about lawine
- What is lawine the alternative form of?
- Lawine is the alternative form of lauwine.
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