gale force

noun

noun

Climatology, Meteorology, Natural sciences, Weather Of a wind, having the speed and strength of a gale.

By the afternoon it seemed as if the storm had passed and that frost was setting in; but in the evening the wind rose to gale force, bringing telegraph poles down like skittles and tangling power and telephone lines.1960 March, “The January blizzard in the North-East of Scotland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 137:

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