valanche

Definitions

Noun. [B2]

Examples

“But the great danger of travelling here when the sun is up, proceeds from what they call⟳ the Valanches. These are balls of snow⟳ detached from the mountains which over-top the road, either by the heat of the sun, or the humidity of the weather. A piece of snow⟳ thus loosened from the rock, though perhaps not above three or four feet in diameter, increases sometimes in its descent to such a degree, as to become⟳ two hundred paces in length, and rolls down with such rapidity, that the traveller is crushed to death before he can make⟳ three steps on the road.”

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