Word.ws English Dictionary

windslab

windslab noun: snow that peels off in large slabs when disturbed, increasing the risk of avalanche.

Noun

windslab (countable and uncountable, plural windslabs)

  1. Snow that peels off in large slabs when disturbed, increasing the risk of avalanche.
    • The local Lombarde has blasted upper slopes, occasionally closed lifts and deposited windslab, potentially dangerous to off-piste skiers, on lee slopes.2009 February 6, Stephen Lee, “Skiwatch”, in The Guardian

Forms of windslab

pluralwindslabs

Origin of windslab

From wind + slab.

Questions about windslab

What does windslab mean?
Windslab means snow that peels off in large slabs when disturbed, increasing the risk of avalanche.
What part of speech is windslab?
Windslab is a noun.
What is the plural of windslab?
The plural of windslab is windslabs.

Words near windslab in the dictionary

  1. windshield-wipers
  2. windshielded
  3. windshielding
  4. windshields
  5. windship
  6. windslab
  7. windslabs
  8. windsled
  9. windsleds
  10. windsnap
  11. windsnaps

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: windslab (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “windslab.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/windslab. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.