Crossword-Solution: WILLIWAW
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Williwaw | n. | Alt. of Willywaw |
We have 15 clues for the answer “WILLIWAW”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Gore Vidal's first novel | 1 answer |
| Violent gust of polar wind | 1 answer |
| Violent gust of wind in the Rockies | 1 answer |
| Violent squall | 1 answer |
| Violent squall in the near-polar regions | 1 answer |
| wind squall | 2 answers |
| sudden strong gust of cold wind blowing offshore from a mountainous coast | 2 answers |
| Sudden violent wind | 2 answers |
| ALEUTIANS WIND | 10 answers |
| BE violent | 10 answers |
| A SUDDEN VIOLENT DISTURBANCE | 10 answers |
| A SUDDEN VIOLENT SPONTANEOUS OCCURRENCE | 10 answers |
| A sudden and violent collapse | 10 answers |
| A SUDDEN VIOLENT CHANGE IN THE EARTH'S SURFACE | 11 answers |
| Hurricane | 22 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RTEEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with WILLIWAW (4)
While I was wondering why no trees grew on the slope abreast of the anchorage, half minded to lay by the sail-making and land with my gun for some game and to inspect a white boulder on the beach, near the brook, a williwaw came down with such terrific force as to carry the _Spray_, with two anchors down, like a feather out of the cove and away into deep water.
But it was interesting to see, as I let go the anchor, that it did not reach the bottom before another williwaw struck down from this mountain and carried the sloop off faster than I could pay out cable.
Now he hails it with hope, for he knows that the williwaw [Note 3] causes a Fuegian the most intense fear, and oft engulfs his crazy craft, with himself and all his belongings.
Yet louder and more vengefully they shout at finding pursuit is vain, as they soon do, for the diversion caused by the williwaw has given the gig an advantage, throwing all the canoes so far astern that there is no likelihood of its being caught.
Quotes with WILLIWAW (1)
The name Alaska is probably an abbreviation of Unalaska, derived from the original Aleut word agunalaksh, which means "the shores where the sea breaks its back." The war between water and land is never-ending. Waves shatter themselves in spent fury against the rocky bulwarks of the coast; giant tides eat away the sand beaches and alter the entire contour of an island overnight; williwaw winds pour down the side of a volcano like snow sliding off a roof, building to a hundred-…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1963–2007).