"whirlblast" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From whirl + blast.",
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      "form": "whirlblasts",
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          "ref": "1829, Thomas Love Peacock, The Misfortunes of Elphin:",
          "text": "The breakers rave; the whirlblasts roar; / The mingled rage of seas and skies / Bursts on the low and lonely shore[…]",
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          "ref": "1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter I, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume II (The Constitution), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book IV (Varennes), pages 151–152:",
          "text": "But now, how easily might these, dashing out on Lafayette, snatch off the Hereditary Representative; and roll away with him, after the manner of a whirl-blast, whither they listed!",
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        "A whirlwind."
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        "(archaic, poetic) A whirlwind."
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