moderate gale


noun
  1. a wind of 32–38 miles per hour (14–17 meters per second).

Origin of moderate gale

1
First recorded in 1695–1705

Words Nearby moderate gale

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How to use moderate gale in a sentence

  • The wind hardened during the dark hours, and was blowing a moderate gale from the south-west at sunrise.

    Yachting Vol. 2 | Various.
  • Her masts and spars, too, were much wounded, and it became a question how she would be able to weather even a moderate gale.

    True Blue | W.H.G. Kingston
  • By ten o'clock the wind had risen to the strength of a more than moderate gale, and the sea in proportion.

  • When it had moved eastward and the hot sun reappeared, wind followed, a moderate gale.

    The Good Neighbors | Edgar Pangborn
  • IT was blowing a moderate gale, and the Aurania, steaming at full speed into it, rolled viciously.

    The Dust of Conflict | David Goodger (goodger@python.org)

British Dictionary definitions for moderate gale

moderate gale

noun
  1. a gale of force seven on the Beaufort scale, capable of swaying trees

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