Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun gale
1 sense of gale
Sense 1
gale -- (a strong wind moving 45-90 knots; force 7 to 10 on Beaufort scale)
=> wind, air current, current of air -- (air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure; "trees bent under the fierce winds"; "when there is no wind, row"; "the radioactivity was being swept upwards by the air current and out into the atmosphere")