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snow devil 
a whirling column of snow sucked up in a vortex by the wind.
- 1954 There was the same damned wind and the same mad-looking snow devils whirled up the surface of the river.
- 1959 During the long night of Feb. 7, the great wind born of the polar ice came seeking to the south across five hundred miles of tundra plain . . . to send snow devils dancing like dervishes across the ice.
- 1954 There was the same damned wind and the same mad-looking snow devils whirled up the surface of the river.