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^[1]:

     "“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