gale
noun[C]
uk/ɡeɪl/us/ɡeɪl/a verystrongwind:
大风Hundreds ofoldtreeswereblowndown in the gales.数百棵老树被大风刮倒了。
Wind & winds
- air pocket
- anemometer
- blast
- blowy
- breeze
- chinook
- dust devil
- hurricane
- jet stream
- leeward
- prevailing
- sigh
- sirocco
- sou'wester
- southwester
- squall
- the Coriolis effect
- tornado
- weathercock
- westerly
Idiom
gales of laughter