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A stormy northeasterly wind mentioned in the Bible (Acts 27:14); any rough wind or storm. quotations examples
It stood on a sharp bleak corner, where that tempestuous wind Euroclydon kept up a worse howling than ever it did about poor Paul's tossed craft. Euroclydon, nevertheless, is a mighty pleasant zephyr to any one in-doors, with his feet on the hob quietly toasting for bed.
1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick