blirt

A gust, as of wind and rain.

[…] and farther on he asks if the poet's resolve shall be Struck through with the blirt Of a goose breath?

[page 49:] The blirt was moving in, windy and wet. Somewhere out around the Forge Town headland, lightning broke over the Amnion and rain began to fall. [page 122:] Cobbles of the traffic circus before the barbican were dry after the blirt rain, but blood smeared the stones or was draining away into the seams […]

A fit of crying.

To burst into tears.