| 单词 | mackerel gale |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmackerel gale ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [noun] > wind of the kind when fish are caught mackerel gale1577 mackerel breeze1751 fishing-breeze1888 1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. i. viii. f. 19/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I Scarse comparable to the makerell gale. 1769 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) III. iv. 222 This fish [sc. mackrel] is easily taken by a bait, but the best time is during a fresh gale of wind, which is thence called a mackrel gale. < as lemmas |
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