Definition of "lauwine" in İngilizce

noun

1. (poetic, dated) An avalanche.

   • 1823, George Bancroft, Poems, Hilliard and Metcalf, page 10, The towers of my castle of lauwines are made; / On chambers of ice their foundations are laid; / Like loftiest pyramids rising in air, / O! who but confesses my turrets are fair.