windworn

English

Alternative forms

• wind-worn

Etymology

wind +‎ worn

Adjective

windworn (comparative more windworn, superlative most windworn)

1. Worn or smoothed by the action of wind erosion.

   windworn rocks

   • 1917, Sven Anders Hedin, Southern Tibet: Discoveries in Former Times Compared with My Own Researches in 1906-1908, page 337:

     One such rock touched by the road, consisted of porphyrite, another of volcanic tuff; the ground is hard, the gravel glassy lava, all more or less windworn. […] the plain, an extremely flat depression, a high-land desert, low, flat, levelled, windworn, weathered and disintegrating rocks, a country swept clear by innumerable storms, a dry, arid and desolate country.

   • 1961, International Association for Quaternary Research. Congress, Guide-book of Excursion A-E., page 25:

     […] the Józefów gravels are strongly windworn, whereas the sands and gravels at Katarzynów and Działki Niesułkowskie fail to show any such characteristics. Infor- mation , concerning the oldest Würmian deposits i.e. those anterior to the Katarzynów fossil soil II , is […]

   • 1968(?), George Orwell, "On a Ruined Farm near the His Master's Voice Gramophone Factory" (poem), quoted in 2013, Circles and Diagonals: Penguin Underground Lines: Circle, Metropolitan, East London Line, Waterloo & City (Penguin UK, →ISBN):

     The acid smoke has soured the fields, / And browned the few and windworn flowers; […]