heavy gale

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• Heavy

  ·vt To make heavy. II. Heavy ·adj Having the heaves. III. Heavy ·superl With child; pregnant. IV....

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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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• Heavy spar

  ·- Native barium sulphate or barite, — so called because of its high specific gravity as compared wi...

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• Heavy-armed

  ·adj Wearing heavy or complete armor; carrying heavy arms. ...

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• Heavy-haded

  ·adj Clumsy; awkward. ...

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• Heavy-headed

  ·adj Dull; stupid. ...

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• Top-heavy

  ·adj Having the top or upper part too heavy for the lower part. ...

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• top heavy

  Drunk. ...

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• heavy ordnance

  See heavy metal ...

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• heavy metal

  , or heavy ordnance. Ordnance of large calibre. ...

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• heavy sea

  High and strong waves. ...

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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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• gentle gale

  In which a ship carries royals and flying-kites; force 4. ...

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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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• 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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• heavy drift-ice

  Dense ice, which has a great depth in the water in proportion to its size, and is not in a state of ...

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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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