WordNet
n. wind moving 32-38 knots; 7 on the Beaufort scale [syn: moderate gale]
Usage examples of "near gale".
He had to shout to make himself heard above the near gale-force wind.
At quarter to two the wind rose substantially and Turlock told his men, At four itll be near gale.
They ringed the shuttle pad, coats and clothing whipped by the bitter wind of Beaufort's spring, hair flying in the near gale.
Josephine had pushed her arm through the crook of his elbow and walked in step half a pace behind him, using him part as shelter and part as battering ram as they forced their way forward into the near gale.
The prologue to genuine disaster was a near gale under dreary torn scud, the remnant of a moribund hurricane, before which Kyllikki plunged and ramped, more often than not hove down nearly on her ear.
It stretched straight out like a flat, white canopy and flapped violently in the wind, which was now near gale force.
It was showing an ambient temperature of minus eight degrees, but there was a biting near gale blowing in from the northeast that must have brought a windchill reading of nearer minus twenty-five.