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gale

verb
/ɡeɪl/

Etymology

From Middle English galen, from Old English galan (“to sing, enchant, call, cry, scream; sing charms, practice incantation”), from Proto-Germanic *galaną (“to roop, sing, charm”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰel- (“to shout, scream, charm away”). Cognate with Danish gale (“to crow”), Swedish gala (“to crow”), Icelandic gala (“to sing, chant, crow”), Dutch galm (“echo, sound, noise”). Related to yell.

  1. derived from *gʰel-✻
  2. inherited from *galaną✻
  3. inherited from galan
  4. inherited from galen

Definitions

  1. To cry

    To cry; groan; croak.

  2. To talk.

  3. To sing

    To sing; utter with musical modulations.

  4. ›+ 10 more definitions

    1. A very strong wind, more than a breeze, less than a storm

      A very strong wind, more than a breeze, less than a storm; number 7 through to 9 winds on the 12-step Beaufort scale.

      • It's blowing a gale outside.
      • Many parts of the boat were damaged in the gale.

    2. An outburst, especially of laughter.

      • a gale of laughter
      • The slightest hint of smugness would have had the nation leaning over our shoulders to blow out the birthday candles with a gale of reproach and disapproval.

    3. A light breeze.

      • A little gale will soon disperse that cloud.
      • And winds of gentlest gale Arabian odours fanned / From their soft wings.

    4. To sail, or sail fast.

    5. A shrub, also called sweet gale or bog myrtle (Myrica gale), that grows on moors and fens.

    6. A periodic payment, such as is made of a rent or annuity.

      • Gale day - the day on which rent or interest is due.

    7. The personal mining plot of a freeminer.

      • As a rule the free miners do not work their own 'gales,' but dispose of them to capitalists.

    8. A surname.

    9. A unisex given name.

    10. A number of places in the United States

      A number of places in the United States:

The neighborhood

Derived

bang like a dunny door in a gale, gale force, galelike, galeproof, near gale, nightingale, Schumpeter's gale, severe gale, strong gale, whole gale, Gale-Shapley algorithm

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA