storm signal

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noun

a visual signal, as a flag, giving advance notice of a heavy storm, used especially along coastal areas.

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Origin of storm signal

First recorded in 1860–65

Words nearby storm signal

Stormont, storm petrel, storm pit, stormproof, storm sewer, storm signal, stormstayed, storm surge, storm track, storm trooper, storm troops

How to use storm signal in a sentence

One man has a rheumatic joint which, when the wind is northeast, lifts the storm signal.
Around The Tea-Table|T. De Witt Talmage
This fact is a storm signal whose significance we should sacredly heed.
The American Missionary--Volume 39, No. 02, February, 1885|Various
When you start anything with me in short-hand it's bound to turn out a storm signal.'
Sixes and Sevens|O. Henry
The small ragged vein on Anthony's forehead was the storm signal for the family.
A Poor Wise Man|Mary Roberts Rinehart

Snow was now beginning to fall in large flakes; a storm signal, and one they liked little.
The Trail of a Sourdough|May Kellogg Sullivan