Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete form of
typhoon .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare See
typhoon .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Obsolete form of
typhoon .
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Examples
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It means both the ass god and the wind called tufan in Arabic and Hindustani; t'ai fung in chinese; and tuffoon or Typhoon in the South Pacific.
Archive 2008-03-01 Jan 2008
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The 4th September we had a great tuffoon from the north, which forced the Moon on shore, and overset the Expedition, which instantly went down.
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At this time we had very heavy winds, both by day and night, so that we were in fear of another tuffoon, on which account all the fishers hauled their boats ashore, and every one endeavoured to secure the roofings of their houses.
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So great a tempest or tuffoon has lately occurred at _Edoo_ [Jedo,] as had never been before experienced at that place.
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We afterwards learnt that this tuffoon did more damage at
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_tuffoon_ or storm of such extreme violence as I had never witnessed, neither had the like been experienced in this country during the memory of man.
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