gale
IPA: gˈeɪɫ
noun
- (meteorology) A very strong wind, more than a breeze, less than a storm; number 7 through to 9 winds on the 12-step Beaufort scale.
- An outburst, especially of laughter.
- (literary, archaic) A light breeze.
- A shrub, also called sweet gale or bog myrtle (Myrica gale), that grows on moors and fens.
- (archaic) A periodic payment, such as is made of a rent or annuity.
- A surname.
- A number of places in the United States:
- An unincorporated community in Alexander County, Illinois.
- An unincorporated community in Center Township, Hendricks County, Indiana.
- An unincorporated community in Upshur County, West Virginia.
- A town in Trempealeau County, Wisconsin.
verb
- (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To cry; groan; croak.
- (intransitive, of a person, now chiefly dialectal) To talk.
- (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To sing; utter with musical modulations.
- (nautical) To sail, or sail fast.
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Examples of "gale" in Sentences
- Knighting Gale is known as seraphic.
- Now the gale blew through the house.
- The gale blew towards the East River.
- The gale ceased and the sea became calm.
- Gwen Gale was the one to pull the trigger.
- Gale Crater is in the upper left on the map.
- The wind was gusting to gale force at the time.
- Gale was the son of a Colonel in the Royal Engineers.
- At least megan gale is still his personal tooth fairy.
- Gale called the artist a liar and then exited the room.
- And at the same moment the gale from the south-west ceased.
- In the evening the gale abated, and at midnight it fell calm.
- And no more shall I write, I swear, until this gale is blown out, or we are blown to Kingdom Come.
- Then I crossed on the ice, which was broken, and once drifted till a gale from the west put me upon the shore.
- "The gale is breaking," he told me, waving his mittened hand at a starry segment of sky momentarily exposed by the thinning clouds.
- He awoke in the morning to find a piping gale from the south, which caught the chill from the whited peaks and glacial valleys and blew as cold as north wind ever blew.
- White-knuckled, she gripped the clacking needles so ferociously she could have knitted the booties in gale force winds and they still would have turned out ankle-stranglers.
- Cimbri used the _Tamarix germanica_, the Scandinavians the fruit of the sweet gale (_Myrica gale_), the Cauchi the fruit and the twigs of the chaste tree (_Vitex agrius castus_), and the Icelanders the yarrow
- One by one, like a flight of swallows, our more meagrely sparred and canvassed yachts went by, leaving them wallowing and dead and shortening down in what they called a gale but which we called a dandy sailing breeze.
- Bevirt said the system is designed to withstand strong winds, and in gale-force winds or periods of no wind at all the array would be programmed to land itself and take to the air again when the wind conditions are more suitable.
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