gale
see also: Gale
Pronunciation
Gale
Proper noun
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see also: Gale
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɡeɪl/
gale (gales, present participle galing; past galed, past participle galed)
- (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To sing; charm; enchant.
- Can he cry and gale.
- (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To cry; groan; croak.
- (intransitive, of a person, now chiefly dialectal) To talk.
- (intransitive, of a bird, Scotland) To call.
- (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To sing; utter with musical modulations.
gale (plural gales)
- (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.
- 1927-29, Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xii ↗:
- With my mother's permission and blessings, I set off exultantly for Bombay, leaving my wife with a baby of a few months. But on arrival there, friends told my brother that the Indian Ocean was rough in June and July, and as this was my first voyage, I should not be allowed to sail until November. Someone also reported that a steamer had just been sunk in a gale. This made my brother uneasy, and he refused to take the risk of allowing me to sail immediately.
- 1927-29, Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xii ↗:
- An outburst, especially of laughter.
- a gale of laughter
- 1972, International Association of Seed Crushers, Congress [proceedings]
- The slightest hint of smugness would have had the nation leaning over our shoulders to blow out the birthday candles with a gale of reproach and disapproval.
- (literary, archaic) A light breeze.
- c. 1591–1592, William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act V, scene iii]:
- A little gale will soon disperse that cloud.
- 1671, John Milton, “Book the Second”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: Printed by J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], OCLC 228732398 ↗:
- And winds of gentlest gale Arabian odours fanned / From their soft wings.
- (obsolete) A song or story.
- German: Sturm
- Italian: folata, ventata, fortunale, burrasca, vento forte, brezza
- Portuguese: ventania, vendaval
- Russian: бу́ря
- Spanish: ventolera, ventarrón
- Italian: esplosione, scoppio
- Russian: взрыв
gale (gales, present participle galing; past and past participle galed)
- (nautical) To sail, or sail fast.
gale
- A shrub, also called sweet gale or bog myrtle (Myrica gale), that grows on moors and fens.
- German: Gagelstrauch
- Russian: воско́вник
gale (plural gales)
- (archaic) A periodic payment, such as is made of a rent or annuity.
- Gale day - the day on which rent or interest is due.
Gale
Proper noun
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