gale
Pronunciation: /ɡeɪl/
The English word “gale” has 10 meanings listed here.
verb
noun
- A very strong wind, more than a breeze, less than a storm; number 7 through to 9 winds on the 12-step Beaufort scale.
- An outburst, especially of laughter.
- A light breeze.
- A shrub, also called sweet gale or bog myrtle (Myrica gale), that grows on moors and fens.
- A periodic payment, such as is made of a rent or annuity.
- The personal mining plot of a freeminer.
Etymology
From Middle English galen, from Old English galan (“to sing, enchant, call, cry, scream; sing charms, practice incantation”), from Proto-Germanic *galaną (“to roop, sing, charm”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰel- (“to shout, scream, charm away”). Cognate with Danish gale (“to crow”), Swedish gala (“to crow”), Icelandic gala (“to sing, chant, crow”), Dutch galm (“echo, sound, noise”). Related to…
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