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Definition of Dust devil
1. Noun. A miniature whirlwind strong enough to whip dust and leaves and litter into the air.
Definition of Dust devil
1. Noun. A small atmospheric vortex appearing in clear, dry conditions, made visible by swirling dust picked up from the ground. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dust Devil
Literary usage of Dust devil
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society by Royal Meteorological Society (Great Britain) (1908)
"dust devil." In the Report of the Surveyor-General of Ceylon for 1905 there is
an account of an unusually good specimen of what is popularly known in the ..."
2. The History of the Boer War by Foster Hugh Egerton Cunliffe (1901)
"... was made up entirely of men specially THE ADVANCE OF THE "dust devil acquainted
with the country, the condition of service being that each trooper ..."
3. Cassell's History of the Boer War, 1899-1902 by Richard Danes (1903)
"And as if the heat were not enough, here and there a dust devil. A dust devil is
a huge column of dust hundreds of feet high, almost as thick as a ..."
4. Through the Heart of Africa by Frank Hulme Melland, Edward H. Cholmeley (1912)
"The spare fly in front of one of the tents was swept away, and while the two
tents were still suffering from the attack, a dust devil came along and nearly ..."
5. Exploring Organic Environments in the Solar System by National Research Council (U.S.) (2007)
"SM Metzger, "Geomorphic Tests of the Geyser and dust devil Models for Triton's
... AP Ingersoll and KA Tryka, "Triton's Plumes—The dust devil Hypothesis," ..."
6. Applied Colloid Chemistry: General Theory by Wilder Dwight Bancroft (1921)
"A so-called dust devil or whirlwind which carries a column of fine sand up two
or three hundred feet in the air will affect an instrument two miles away, ..."
7. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1905)
"But no,— a dust-devil on the white road was making strenuous efforts to be born.
At first, one saw only a tiny focus of whirling dust, a gyration as it were ..."
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