| 单词 | half gale |
| 释义 | > as lemmashalf gale half gale n. Meteorology a fairly strong wind; spec. a wind of force 7 on the Beaufort scale (see near gale n.).Cf. to blow half a gale at Phrases 3. Π 1825 Morning Herald 28 July At ten minutes to four o'clock, the balloon ascended upon what sailors call a half gale, that pressed it forward steadily in a north-east direction, upon an inclination equivalent to a sun beam of the instant. 1926 T. E. Lawrence Seven Pillars (subscribers' ed.) xliii. 228 By noon it blew a half-gale, so dry that our shrivelled lips cracked open, and the skin of our faces chapped. 2016 Times (Nexis) 3 Dec. 17 Once we were through the dunes and heading down the beach, we had a half gale in our faces. < as lemmas |
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