thaw wind

English

Noun

thaw wind (plural thaw winds)

  1. (Scotland, Yorkshire, Cheshire) A cold, piercing wind from the south or south-east, which often accompanies the breaking up of a long frost.
    • 1847, Emily Brontë, chapter XIII, in Wuthering Heights‎:
      "“These are the earliest flowers at the Heights,” she exclaimed. “They remind me of soft thaw winds, and warm sunshine, and nearly melted snow. Edgar, is there not a south wind, and is not the snow almost gone?”"

References
  • English Dialect Society, Publications, Volume 46, 289
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