单词 | travado |
释义 | ‖ travado Obs.|trəˈvɑːdəʊ| Also 8 travat. [Portuguese travados a kind of whirlwind, pl. of travado, pa. pple. of travar to twine, twist.] A sudden violent storm of wind and rain with thunder and lightning; a tornado.
[1625Purchas Pilgrims II. vii. ii. §6. 952 Very foule weather there with Thunder and Lightning, (which the Portugals call Trauados).] 1686Goad Celest. Bodies i. i. 2 Those Dire Tempests..known amongst us by the names of Spouts, Huracans, Tornados, Travados. 1770J. R. Forster tr. Kalm's Trav. N. Amer. (1772) II. 63 A peculiar kind of storm called a Travat or Travado, happened to-day. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Travado, or Travat, a heavy squall, with sudden gusts of wind, lightning, and rain, on the coast of North America; like the African tornado. |

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