gale force

noun

Definitions

  1. 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.

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