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- adjective Alternative form of gale force.
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Examples
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Although the rain of the past few days held off, the march took place in a galeforce south-easterly wind.
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The rain of the past few days has held off but the march was taking place in galeforce south-easterly winds.
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The rain of the past few days has held off but the march was taking place in galeforce south-easterly winds.
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A Weather Bureau spokesman said Friday's galeforce winds which lashed Cape Town were equal in intensity to those experienced on
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Shocked men, women and children spent the night in Koeberg Road near the camp as the galeforce south-easter swept the flames through the camp within minutes.
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No one, except in the wildest flights of nightmarish imagination, could have envisaged what must indeed have happened: exploding tanks and thousands of gallons of blazing oil being driven through the night by a galeforce wind.
Ice Station Zebra MacLean, Alistair, 1922-1987 1963
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The 16-year-old has been forced off course to seek refuge from galeforce winds whipped up by a large low pressure system sweeping across seas south of South Australia.
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It's often crowded and the water in summer is often freezing, down to 11 degrees C after a particularly heavy upwelling, caused by galeforce offshore southeasters that blow for days, pulling deep water to the surface.
Muti 2009
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At McMullen Park, hosts Bedford FC also won 2-0 against Potton United in the South Midlands Floodlight Cup when the galeforce wind again played its part.
unknown title 2009
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In the meanwhiles, I just realized there is an extra satellite dish on the roof, from a prior provender of wireless television, and I suppose it's as good a time as any to muscle a ladder against the wall, and rasle that thing down in a galeforce wind.
Velociworld 2008
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