fresh gale

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   wind moving 39-46 knots; 8 on the Beaufort scale

   Broadergale

   Part ofBeaufort scale

Questions about fresh gale

What does fresh gale mean?

fresh gale means "wind moving 39-46 knots; 8 on the Beaufort scale".

Is fresh gale a common word?

fresh gale is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.