strong gale

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   wind moving 47-54 knots; 9 on the Beaufort scale

   Broadergale

   Part ofBeaufort scale

Questions about strong gale

What does strong gale mean?

strong gale means "wind moving 47-54 knots; 9 on the Beaufort scale".

Is strong gale a common word?

strong 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.