lauwine

But the fittest has survived, and Byron's unlovely and misbegotten "lauwine" has died a natural death.] [ni] _But I have seen the virgin Jungfrau rear_.

The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

  The thundering lauwine — might be worshipped more;

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage 2007

Now and then we came to rushing mountain - torrents bursting over the road; far away, ever and anon, we heard the roar of a _lauwine_ or avalanche; sometimes I looked out, and could see straight down below me a thousand feet into an abyss or on a headlong stream.

Memoirs Charles Godfrey Leland 1863

The thundering lauwine -- might be worshipped more;

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

-- [MS.M. erased.] [454] In the greater part of Switzerland, the avalanches are known by the name of lauwine.

The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806