storm-warning

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• Warning

  ·noun Previous notice. II. Warning ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Warn>>. III. Warning ·adj Giving previous ...

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• Storm

  ·vi To raise a tempest. II. Storm ·noun A heavy shower or fall, any adverse outburst of tumultuous ...

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• storm

  A violent wind; a tempest. Thus, 'a storm of wind' is correct language as the proper sense of the wo...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• coast-warning

  Synonymous with storm-signal; formerly fire-beacons were used to give warning of the approach of an ...

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• scarbro' warning

  Letting anything go by the run, without due notice. Heywood in his account of Stafford's surprise of...

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• warning-signal

  Hoisted to warn vessels not to pass a bar. Also, to warrant higher pay to watermen plying between Po...

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• weather-warning

  The telegraphic cautionary warning given by hoisting the storm-drum on receiving the forecast. ...

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• Storm-beat

  ·adj Beaten, injured, or impaired by storms. ...

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• snow-storm

  a continued snow so long as it lies on the ground. North. ...

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• gowk-storm

  Late vernal equinoctial gales contemporary with the gowk or cuckoo. ...

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• magnetic storm

  An extraordinary magnetic action indicated by delicate magnetometers in a magnetic observatory, not ...

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• storm, to

  To take by vigorous assault, in spite of the resistance of the defenders. ...

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• storm-breeders

  Heavy cumulo-stratus clouds. ...

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• storm-drum

  A canvas cylinder 3 feet in length, expanded at each end by a strong wooden hoop 3 feet in diameter....

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• storm-finch

  The petrel, or Mother Cary's chicken. ...

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• storm-jib

  In cutters, the fifth or sixth size: the inner jib of square-rigged ships. ...

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• storm-kite

  A contrivance for sending a hawser from a stranded vessel to the shore. ...

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• storm-sail

  A sail made of stout No. 1 canvas, of reduced dimensions, for use in a gale. ...

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• storm-signal

  The hoisting of a danger-flag. Also, Fitzroy's drum and cone, which show the direction of the expect...

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• storm-trysail

  A fore-and-aft sail, hoisted by a gaff, but having no boom at its foot, and only used in foul weathe...

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• storm-wave

  A wave which tumbles home without being accompanied by wind. Sometimes the result of a gale elsewher...

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• any port in a storm

  signifies contentment with whatever may betide. ...

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