Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A signal displayed on sea-coasts and lake-shores for indicating the expected prevalence of high winds or storms.
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Examples
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And immediately after that a storm-signal showed itself, at the sight of which all the family trembled.
The Wife 2004
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The connection between the life-saving and storm-signal service was effected at several stations, thus supplying telegraphic communication between the department and the coast outposts.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 Various
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The "storm-signal" was hoisted ominously between his eyebrows.
Menschen im Krieg. English Andreas Latzko 1909
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The general's pudgy hand involuntarily clenched itself, and the dreaded frown, the "storm-signal" that his own soldiers, as well as the enemy, had learned to fear, appeared for a moment on his prominent forehead.
Menschen im Krieg. English Andreas Latzko 1909
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Still the ladies said nothing, but there was a storm-signal hoisted in
More Cargoes 1897 1903
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Still the ladies said nothing, but there was a storm-signal hoisted in
Sea Urchins 1903
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Our attention was attracted by a small group of men standing round the storm-signal post.
A Man of Mark Anthony Hope 1898
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And immediately after that a storm-signal showed itself, at the sight of which all the family trembled.
The Wife, and other stories Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1882
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But Orion was the storm-signal, and said: "Reef sail, make things snug, or put into harbor, for the hurricanes are getting their wings out."
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a gleam of fire shot from the mild eye of Mr. Morell, significant as a storm-signal across a sea of glass.
Lancashire Idylls (1898) Marshall Mather
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