Definition of "wuther" [wuther]

• To make a rushing sound; to whizz. (verb)
• To shake vigorously. (verb)

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• "I felt sure now that I was in the pensionnat -- sure by the beating rain on the casement; sure by the "wuther" of wind amongst trees, denoting a garden outside; sure by the chill, the whiteness, the solitude, amidst which I lay."
• "I felt sure now that I was in the pensionnat — sure by the beating rain on the casement; sure by the “wuther” of wind amongst trees, denoting a garden outside; sure by the chill, the whiteness, the solitude, amidst which I lay."
• ""Well, I dunno," said Grandpa Walker, facetiously, balancing a good-sized morsel of food carefully on the blade of his knife, "that depen's on wuther ye're willin 'to take pot-luck with us or not.""