Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A storm popularly supposed to occur at the time the sun crosses the equator; hence, any heavy storm that occurs within a week or ten days of the equinoxes; an equinoctial storm.
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Examples
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'Yes; I expect if the tide serves and the line-storm don't overtake him they'll come in and appear out on Sunday.
William's Wedding 1910
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WHAT strikes a man as being almost supernaturally remarkable is the fact that house-cleaning and the line-storm invariably strike the earth at one and the same time.
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Then the same saying applies to the "line-storm" of March, and the spring and summer
Current Superstitions Collected from the Oral Tradition of English Speaking Folk William Wells Newell 1873
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O, dear, it was as lonesome as a line-storm, after lively Ruth had gone away.
Dotty Dimple at Her Grandmother's Sophie May 1869
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