hurricano
English
Noun
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 606515358, [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...
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References
hurricano in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913