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Strong gale   /strɔŋ geɪl/   Listen
Strong gale

noun
1.
Wind moving 47-54 knots; 9 on the Beaufort scale.





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"Strong gale" Quotes from Famous Books



... certain seasons of the year some trains carried oxen for this very purpose. For you must remember that the engines of that date were not powerful enough to make progress through mud, snow, or against fierce head winds. Often a strong gale would delay them for hours or bring ...
— Steve and the Steam Engine • Sara Ware Bassett
... ragged line of cypress swamp half encircled it and gleamed weirdly under a sky packed with dark clouds that flashed and growled and boomed and growled again. You could see rain falling from one cloud over Lake Pontchartrain; the strong gale brought the sweet smell of it. Westward, yonder, you may still descry the old calaboose just peeping over the tops of some lofty trees; and that bunch a little at the left is Congo Square; but the old, old ...
— Strange True Stories of Louisiana • George Washington Cable
... St. George, was detained by baffling winds and thick weather. Fortunately on the 21st good altitudes of the sun were obtained for the chronometers, and thereby the situation of the fleet was determined before the storm began on the 22nd: at noon it blew a strong gale from N.W. (by compass); Leostoff bore N. 31, W. 203 miles, the Texel S. 136 miles; but an allowance of two points was made for what was called indraft, and the course steered was S.W. by W. On the 23rd the storm increased ...
— Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez. Vol II • Sir John Ross
... should think," Donovan replied. "Look at the sail she's got on! They've been getting out studding-sails too. This strong gale ...
— Left on Labrador - or, The cruise of the Schooner-yacht 'Curlew.' as Recorded by 'Wash.' • Charles Asbury Stephens
... the imagery and the incidents. The reader is forced into too much action to sympathize with the merely passive of our nature. As little can a mind thus roused and awakened be brooded on by mean and instinct emotion, as the low, lazy mist can creep upon the surface of a lake while a strong gale is driving it ...
— English literary criticism • Various


Words linked to "Strong gale" :   gale, Beaufort scale, wind scale


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