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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



... 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
... her in other respects. And, oh, what a relief it was to feel the long, easy, floating motion and the level keel of a ship running before wind and sea, in exchange for the short, savage digging into a head sea, with its accompaniments of drenching showers of spray, sickening lee lurches, and a whole gale of wind buffeting one in the face and doing its utmost to drive one's ...
— A Middy of the King - A Romance of the Old British Navy • Harry Collingwood
... 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


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