| 单词 | half a gale |
| 释义 | > as lemmashalf a gale P3. to blow half a gale: (of the wind) to blow very strongly. Hence half a gale: a very strong wind. Now rare. Π 1822 E. M. Blunt Amer. Coast Pilot (ed. 10) 356 The sea breeze sets in very late in the day, and..it blows half a gale of wind.] 1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto X lxiv. 85 The impatient wind blew half a gale. 1835 Mag. Nat. Hist. 8 348 [Wind] W[est]. Cloudy; half a gale. 1915 Forest & Stream Sept. 535 It may be a nasty morning, east wind blowing half a gale, dark as pitch, or clear with the heavens dotted with stars. 1951 Beaver Sept. 20 Wind half a gale, temperature away down and slob in harbour and around schooner turning to ice. < as lemmas |
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