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gale force

gale force noun: of a wind, having the speed and strength of a gale.

Noun

gale force (uncountable)

  1. Of a wind, having the speed and strength of a gale.
    • By the afternoon it seemed as if the storm had passed and that frost was setting in; but in the evening the wind rose to gale force, bringing telegraph poles down like skittles and tangling power and telephone lines.1960 March, “The January blizzard in the North-East of Scotland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 137

Forms of gale force

alternative formgale-force
alternative formgaleforce

Questions about gale force

What does gale force mean?
Gale force means of a wind, having the speed and strength of a gale.
What part of speech is gale force?
Gale force is a noun.

Words near gale force in the dictionary

  1. galdr
  2. galdrar
  3. galdrs
  4. gale
  5. Gale Crater
  6. gale force
  7. Gale's Lump
  8. Gale-Shapley algorithm
  9. galea
  10. galea aponeurotica
  11. galeae

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