Usually means: Strong, sustained wind, often coastal.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. Gale, gale: Merriam-Webster
  2. gale, gale: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gale, gale: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gale: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gale: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gale, gale: Wordnik
  7. gale: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Gale, gale: Wiktionary
  9. gale: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. gale: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. gale: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Gale, gale: Dictionary.com
  13. gale: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. gale: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. GALE (singer), Gale (Cengage), Gale (Loudspeaker), Gale (Martian crater), Gale (crater), Gale (disambiguation), Gale (given name), Gale (publisher), Gale (surname), Gale: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Gale: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. gale: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. gale: Rhymezone
  19. gale: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. gale: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. gale: FreeDictionary.org
  22. gale: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. gale: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. gale: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. gale: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Gale (wind), gale: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. GALE: Acronym Finder
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. gale: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. gale, gale: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  2. Weather Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. gale, gale: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. gale: Urban Dictionary

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dairy Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  3. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  4. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  5. Gale: Latitude Mexico

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To cry; groan; croak.
verb:  (intransitive, of a person, now chiefly dialectal) To talk.
verb:  (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To sing; utter with musical modulations.
noun:  (meteorology) A very strong wind, more than a breeze, less than a storm; number 7 through to 9 winds on the 12-step Beaufort scale.
noun:  An outburst, especially of laughter.
noun:  (literary, archaic) A light breeze.
verb:  (nautical) To sail, or sail fast.
noun:  A shrub, also called sweet gale or bog myrtle (Myrica gale), that grows on moors and fens.
noun:  (archaic) A periodic payment, such as is made of a rent or annuity.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A unisex given name.
noun:  A number of places in the United States:
noun:  An unincorporated community in Alexander County, Illinois.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Center Township, Hendricks County, Indiana.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Upshur County, West Virginia.
noun:  A town in Trempealeau County, Wisconsin.

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