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gale force en · NOUN
Meanings
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(uncountable) 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:
Forms
wikipedia: gale · wikipedia: Beaufort scale