mountain wave
Americannoun
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The gusts were the product of mountain wave wind conditions, meaning they were oriented in a way where they would rapidly drop down the slopes of the San Gabriel Mountains, causing strong, dangerous bursts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2025
That creates a mountain wave, he said, where winds speed down the side of a mountain.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2025
"Britannia needs no bulwarks, No towers along the steep, Her march is o'er the mountain wave, Her home is on the deep."
From Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth by Charles Kingsley
May it tread the mountain wave "as a steed that knows its rider," and is conscious of what it bears from us!
From Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D. Edited by his Daughter by Mary Elizabeth Dewey
The mountain wave, which is the effect of the wind, may be the cause which buries the ship in the ocean,” p.
From An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will by Albert Taylor Bledsoe
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