gale

IPA: gˈeɪɫ

(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.

Examples of "gale" in Sentences

At least megan gale is still his personal tooth fairy.
And at the same moment the gale from the south-west ceased.
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.