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Whole gale   /hoʊl geɪl/   Listen
Whole gale

noun
1.
Wind moving 55-63 knots; 10 on the Beaufort scale.





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"Whole gale" Quotes from Famous Books



... the great ship, her yards braced sharply up, was headed out to seaward on the starboard tack. The wind was now blowing a whole gale and the masts of the ship were bending ...
— Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer - A Romance of the Spanish Main • Cyrus Townsend Brady
... whole gale (in nautical language, sixty-five miles or more an hour) and as the submarine chaser was meeting the seas on a slant, it might almost as well have been ...
— Navy Boys Behind the Big Guns - Sinking the German U-Boats • Halsey Davidson


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


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