Gale

What do we mean by gale?

The sweet gale. noun

A wind with a speed of from 34 to 40 knots (39 to 46 miles per hour; 63 to 74 kilometers per hour), according to the Beaufort scale. noun

A storm at sea. noun

A forceful outburst. noun

To sing.

To cry; groan; croak.

Of a person, to “croak”; talk.

To sing; utter with musical modulations.

To ache or tingle with cold, as the fingers.

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

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

A song. noun

Speech; discourse. noun

To crack with heat or dryness, as wood.

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. noun

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

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

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

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. noun

To sing; charm; enchant.

To cry; groan; croak.

(of a person) To talk.

(of a bird) To call.

To sing; utter with musical modulations.

Words that are spelled similarly to gale:
gale.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word gale:
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Words that rhyme with gale:
scale, rail, pale, hail, entail, trail, mail, avail, email, whale, sale, detail, tail, prevail, nail, bail, cocktail, fail, curtail, ale, sail, tale, veil, assail, hale, retail, stale, bale, frail, quail, travail, vale, wail, male, dovetail, blackmail, flail, wholesale, swale, zale, telltale, voicemail, pail, dale, ail, braille, kale, grail, shale, jail, female, upscale, snail, wale, vail, derail, unveil, impale, exhale, yale, surveil, fairytale, inhale, abigail, holy grail, foxtail, quale, cale, gmail, guardrail, ponytail, thumbnail, handrail, brail, greenmail, gael, dwale, gail, coattail, dail, orrell, toenail, resale, monorail, fantail, martingale, airedale, horsetail, clydesdale, countervail, folktale, airmail, soleil, hobnail, biennale, faille, kail, calle, salle, shail.

Adjectives that are often used to describe gale:
heavy, strong, fresh, violent, westerly, severe, hard, furious, easterly, full, fierce, terrific, moderate, brisk, tremendous, stiff, sudden, southerly, west, terrible, next, gentle, northerly, sweet, 877, east, late, perfect, equinoctial, fair, northwest, fine, prosperous, half, steady, atlantic, favourable, wild, regular, cold, fearful, western, northern, icy, southwest, southern, mile, pleasant, soft, dreadful, southwesterly, freshening, bitter, stormy, wintry, hour, southeast, near, perennial, north, easy, mighty, worst, adverse, awful, favorable, merry, light, warm, stiffe, autumnal, balmy, roughest, knot, smart, northwesterly, propitious, heaviest, frefh, rude.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective gale:
force, skylark, winds, strength, warnings, suit, polk, beating, wind, raising, shapley, proportions, ettrick, bruccoli.

Consonant match to gale:
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Words that sound like gale:
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