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noun

Gale n.

A strong current of air; a wind between a stiff breeze and a hurricane. The most violent gales are called tempests. Note: Gales have a velocity of from about eighteen ("moderate") to about eighty ("very heavy") miles an our.

A moderate current of air; a breeze. "A little gale will soon disperse that cloud." "And winds of gentlest gale Arabian odors fanned From their soft wings."

A state of excitement, passion, or hilarity. "The ladies, laughing heartily, were fast getting into what, in New England, is sometimes called a gale."

Topgallant gale (Naut.), one in which a ship may carry her topgallant sails.

Gale n. A song or story. (Obs.)

Gale n. (Bot.) A plant of the genus Myrica, growing in wet places, and strongly resembling the bayberry. The sweet gale (Myrica Gale) is found both in Europe and in America.

Gale n. The payment of a rent or annuity. (Eng.)

Gale day, the day on which rent or interest is due.

verb

Gale v. i. (Naut.) To sale, or sail fast.

Gale v. i. To sing. (Obs.) "Can he cry and gale."

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Etymology of 'Gale'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Gale" Quotes from Famous Books

... Bertie Gale lived near a noisy little brook, which went singing through the meadow. Just below the house in which he lived was a dam. It made a large pond above it, and the water was used to turn the wheel of a ...

— Pages for Laughing Eyes • Unknown

... the wood's in trouble; His forest fleece the Wrekin heaves; The gale, it plies the saplings double, And thick ...

— A Shropshire Lad • A. E. Housman

... he may have judged the affair more closely than at first appears. The sides of the boat were low, but danger from that cause might be obviated by the skill of the rowers; and then Alem Daghy was not a trifling obstacle in the path of the gale. It might be trusted to hold the cloud awhile; after which a time would be required by the wind to travel the ...

— The Prince of India - Or - Why Constantinople Fell - Volume 1 • Lew. Wallace

... drew up his army to attack him at midnight. And at that very time Mithridates, it is said, saw a vision in his dream foreshowing what should come to pass. For he seemed to be under sail in the Euxine Sea with a prosperous gale, and just in view of Bosporus, discoursing pleasantly with the ship's company, as one overjoyed for his past danger and present security, when on a sudden he found himself deserted of all, and floating ...

— Plutarch's Lives • A.H. Clough

... Gavroche, that green leaf blown about Paris streets; Fantine, the mother; Eponine, the lover; Bishop Bienvenu, the Christian; Jean Valjean, the man,—all are heroic folk. Our hearts throb as we look at them. Gavroche, the lad, dances by as though blown past by the gale. Fantine, shorn of her locks of gold; Fantine, with her bloody lips, because her teeth have been sold to purchase medicine for her sick child—her child, yet a child of shame; Fantine, her mother's love omnipotent, lying white, ...

— A Hero and Some Other Folks • William A. Quayle

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