hurricano
English edit
Noun edit
hurricano (plural hurricanos or hurricanoes)
- (obsolete) A waterspout; a hurricane.
- c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
- You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout.
- 1627, Michael Drayton, Battaile of Agincourt:
- And downe the shower impetuously doth fall,
Like that which men the Hurricano call...
- 1639, Philip Massinger, The Unnatural Combat:
- ...For I am possess'd
With whirle-winds, and each guilty thought to me is
A dreadfull Hurricano...
References edit
“hurricano”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.