DEFINITIONnoun1 a very strong wind: it was almost blowing a gale | [ as modifier ] : gale-force winds.• Meteorology a wind of force 7 to 10 on the Beaufort scale (28-55 knots or 32-63 mph).• a storm at sea.2 (a gale of/gales of) a burst of sound, esp. of laughter: she collapsed into gales of laughter.
ORIGIN mid 16th cent.: perhaps related to Old Norse galinn ‘mad, frantic.’
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