Sentence:  These Sunday-morning hair-cuttings were performed by Fairway; the victim sitting on a chopping-block in front of the house .... Summer and winter the scene was the same, unless the wind were more than usually <WSD>blusterous</WSD>, when the stool was shifted a few feet round the corner. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Blowing in loud and abrupt bursts.