forty-knot

There was a forty-knot wind pouring down the glacier, threatening to blow us all the way to Banff.

Athabaska! Walter Jon Williams 2008

There was a forty-knot wind pouring down the glacier, threatening to blow us all the way to Banff.

Archive 2008-10-01 Walter Jon Williams 2008

He walked down the steps, feeling the structure shudder and sway in the forty-knot gale.

Arctic Fire Douglass, Keith 1997

Even the Scots themselves admit that this brew should only be drunk in sub-zeiro weather on The Hill, in a forty-knot gale, after stalking and shooting a ten-point stag.

The Seventh Scroll Smith, Wilbur 1995

The convoy of ballasted ships was steaming into the teeth of a forty-knot gale.

Red Storm Rising Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1986

They were able to watch the fire spread, the flames carried rapidly before a forty-knot surface wind.

Red Storm Rising Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1986

At fifteen knots, the Foxtrot was too slow to run away from the forty-knot torpedo.

Red Storm Rising Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1986

The sonar crew estimated fifteen-foot waves and forty-knot winds, unusual for the arctic summer.

Red Storm Rising Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1986

What they first saw on the 343 was the wake of this torpedo, coming on at a forty-knot clip for the waist of the ship.

The U-boat hunters 1912

Torpedoes generally strike twelve to fifteen feet under water, but just before this one could make the 343 it broached -- came to the surface of the water -- but without slacking her forty-knot speed.

The U-boat hunters 1912