Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A cone consisting of tarred canvas extended on a frame 3 feet high and 3 feet wide at the base, used either alone or along with the drum as a storm-signal. See cut under
storm-signal .
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Examples
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When the matter, however, had in our presence to be referred to with nods and pronouns, with significant hiatuses and interpolations in the French tongue, then the red flag was flown, the storm-cone hoisted, and by a studious pretence of inattention we were not long in plucking out the heart of the mystery.
The Golden Age 1915
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The domestic storm-cone was hoisted, and I shipped myself on board a small trading vessel bound from Constantinople, by classic seas whose every wave throbs with a deathless memory, to the Grecian Islands and the Levant.
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The domestic storm-cone was hoisted, and I shipped myself on board a small trading vessel bound from
The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame 1895
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When the matter, however, had in our presence to be referred to with nods and pronouns, with significant hiatuses and interpolations in the French tongue, then the red flag was flown, the storm-cone hoisted, and by a studious pretence of inattention we were not long in plucking out the heart of the mystery.
The Golden Age Kenneth Grahame 1895
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The domestic storm-cone was hoisted, and I shipped myself on board a small trading vessel bound from Constantinople, by classic seas whose every wave throbs with a deathless memory, to the Grecian Islands and the
The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame 1895
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"Leave you alone, with the barometer falling and the storm-cone hoisted?
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"Leave you alone, with the barometer falling and the storm-cone hoisted?
Count Bunker 1905
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"I didn't see the storm-cone till half-past three.
Traffics and Discoveries Rudyard Kipling 1900
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