weather-galln.
/ˈwɛðəɡɔːl/, U.S. /ˈwɛðərˌɡɔl/, /ˈwɛðərˌɡɑl/ An imperfect rainbow, believed to be a presage of storm: = water-gall n. 1. Sometimes applied to other appearances in the sky to which the same significance is attributed.
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1621 R. Brathwait Times Curtaine Drawne sig. L7 He..taukes of Starres, and clipses of the Sun,..Of wether-gaws and many sike as these.
1635 G. Markham Eng. Husbandman (ed. 2) i. i. iii. 12 If you shall see one or more Weather-galls which are like Raine-bowes, onely they arise from the Horison but a small way upward.
1694 tr. F. Martens Voy. Spitzbergen 50 in Narbrough's Acct. Several Late Voy. These Lights are called Weather-galls by the Sea-men.
1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Weddir-gaw.
1821 W. Scott Pirate I. iv. 59 See how much heavier the clouds fall every moment, and see these weather-gaws that streak the lead-coloured mass with partial gleams of faded red and purple.
1823 W. Scoresby Jrnl. Voy. Northern Whale-fishery 23 A little before sun~set, a weather-gall (or the limb of a rain-bow), of extraordinary brilliancy, appeared.
1824 W. Carr Horæ Momenta Cravenæ Weather-gall, a secondary rain-bow.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. (at cited word) A weather-gall at morn, Fine weather all gone.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Weather-go, the end of a rainbow, as seen in the morning in showery weather.
1878 J. Veitch Hist. Sc. Border xiv. 515 They eyed carefully the weather-gaw, or broken bit of rainbow above the horizon.
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