storm cone

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   a canvas cone hoisted to warn of high winds

   Broaderstorm signal

   United Kingdom

Questions about storm cone

What does storm cone mean?

storm cone means "a canvas cone hoisted to warn of high winds".

Is storm cone a common word?

storm cone 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.