- rush, swirl, flurry (of rain or snow). Dan [then] a flann [gust] cam howlin doon an a swidder o snaw (Nordern Lichts: An Anthology of Shetland Verse and Prose ed. John Graham and T. A. Robertson 1964). The weather in Perth, home town of William Soutar, was less blustery than in Shetland the night in 1935 when he wrote: And saftly thru the lichted mirk The switherin’ snaw cam doun.
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