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n. A very strong wind.

n. Any of four winds with speeds of from 32 to 63 miles (51 to 102 kilometers) per hour, according to the Beaufort scale.

n. A fresh gale.

n. A forceful outburst: gales of laughter.

n. Archaic A breeze.

n. The sweet gale.

v. To sing; charm; enchant.

v. To cry; groan; croak.

v. To talk.

v. To call.

v. To sing; utter with musical modulations.

n. A very strong wind, more than a breeze, less than a storm; number 7 through 9 winds on the 12-step Beaufort scale.

n. An outburst, especially of laughter.

n. A light breeze.

n. A shrub, sweet gale (Myrica gale) growing on moors and fens.

n. A periodic payment, such as is made of a rent or annuity.

n. A strong current of air; a wind between a stiff breeze and a hurricane. The most violent gales are called tempests.

n. A moderate current of air; a breeze.

n. A state of excitement, passion, or hilarity.

verb-intransitive. To sale, or sail fast.

n. A song or story.

verb-intransitive. To sing.

n. A plant of the genus Myrica, growing in wet places, and strongly resembling the bayberry. The sweet gale (Myrica Gale) is found both in Europe and in America.

n. The payment of a rent or annuity.

To sing.

To cry; groan; croak.

Of a person, to “croak”; talk.

To sing; utter with musical modulations.

n. A song.

n. Speech; discourse.

n. A strong natural current of air; a wind; a breeze; more specifically, in nautical use, a wind between a stiff breeze and a storm or tempest: generally with some qualifying epithet: as, a gentle, moderate, brisk, fresh, stiff, strong, or hard gale.

n. Figuratively, a state of noisy excitement, as of hilarity or of passion.

n. By extension, an odor-laden current of air.

n. The Myrica Gale, a shrub growing in marshy places in northern Europe and Asia and in North America: more usually called sweet-gale, from its pleasant aromatic odor.

n. A periodical payment of rent, interest, duty, or custom; an instalment of money.

n. The right of a free miner to have possession of a plot of land within the Forest of Dean and hundred of St. Briavels, in England, and to work the coal and iron thereunder.

To ache or tingle with cold, as the fingers.

To crack with heat or dryness, as wood.

A copper coin.

n. Gales are classified as moderate, fresh, strong, and whole gales. See Beaufort scale.

To sail away before the wind, or to outstrip another vessel in sailing: generally with away.

n. a strong wind moving 45-90 knots; force 7 to 10 on Beaufort scale

"One by one, like a flight of swallows, our more meagrely sparred and canvassed yachts went by, leaving them wallowing and dead and shortening down in what they called a gale but which we called a dandy sailing breeze."

wind    air current    current of air   

mackerel gale    straightline gale    hanging gale    tail of a gale    fern    topgallant gale    gale of interest    Beaufort_scale   

strong gale    near gale    fresh gale    moderate gale    whole gale    tempests   

breeze    sing    wind    fit   

Bayle    Braille    Dail    Dale    Gael    Gail    Galle    Gayle    Hale    Jarrell   

breeze    squall    hurricane    tempest    storm    gust    blizzard    tide    blast    weather