gentle gale

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• Gentle

  ·noun One well born; a gentleman. II. Gentle ·noun A dipterous larva used as fish bait. III. Gentl...

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• gentle

  A maggot or grub used as a bait by anglers. ...

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• Gale

  ·noun A song or story. II. Gale ·vi To sale, or sail fast. III. Gale ·vi To <<Sing>>. IV. Gale ·n...

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• gale

  1) an old bull, castrated. Hants. 2) a tun-dish, used in brewing. N. 3) the vat in which the beer ...

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• Flower-gentle

  ·noun A species of amaranth (Amarantus melancholicus). ...

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• Gentle-hearted

  ·adj Having a kind or gentle disposition. ...

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• gentle craft

  The art of shoeniaking. One of the gentle craft: a shoemaker: so called because once practised by St...

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• Gale-opithecus

  ·noun A genus of flying Insectivora, formerly called flying lemurs. ·see <<Colugo>>. ...

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• Loom-gale

  ·noun A gentle gale of wind. ...

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• chocolate-gale

  A brisk N.W. wind of the West Indies and Spanish main. ...

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• feeding-gale

  A storm which is on the increase, sometimes getting worse at each succeeding squall. When a gale fre...

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• fresh gale

  A more powerful wind than a fresh breeze (which see). ...

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• hard gale

  When the violence of the wind reduces a ship to be under her storm staysails, No. 10 force. ...

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• heavy gale

  A strong wind, in which a ship is reduced to storm-staysails and close-reefed main-topsail. Force 10...

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• loom-gale

  An easy gale of wind, in which a ship can carry her whole top-sails a-trip. ...

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• moderate gale

  In which a ship carries double reefs in her top-sails. ...

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• steady gale

  A fresh breeze pretty uniform in force and direction. ...

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• strong gale

  That strength of wind under which close-reefed top-sails and storm-staysails are usually carried whe...

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• gale of wind

  Implies what on shore is called a storm, more particularly termed a hard gale or strong gale; number...

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• breaking of a gale

  Indications of a return of fine weather; short gusts at intervals; moaning or whistling of the wind ...

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• tail of a gale

  The latter part of a gale, when its violence is dying out. ...

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• lie-to, in a gale

  , is, by a judicious balance of canvas, to keep a ship's bow to the sea, and, with as much as she ca...

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• try, to, or lie-to, in a gale

  , is, by a judicious balance of canvas, to keep a ship's bow to the sea, and, with as much as she ca...

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• busy as the devil in a gale of wind

  Fidgety restlessness, or double diligence in a bad cause; the imp being supposed to be mischievous i...

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