ˈwind-gall2
[Cf. G. windgalle, -gelle, and water-gall, weather-gall.]
A fragment of a rainbow or of a prismatically-coloured halo, supposed to presage windy weather: = weather-gall.
| 1823 J. F. Cooper Pilot I. ii. 19 There be streaked wind-galls in the offing, that speak..plainly..to shorten sail. 1840 F. D. Bennett Whaling Voy. I. 3 We noticed the phenomenon named by nautical men a ‘wind-gall’..or ‘sun-dog’. 1860 Fitz-Roy in Merc. Marine Mag. VII. 344. |