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Definition of Line storm
1. Noun. A violent rainstorm near the time of an equinox.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Line Storm
Literary usage of Line storm
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Isles of Summer, Or, Nassau and the Bahamas by Charles Ives (1880)
"Searching Outside in a Good Wind for the line storm. Sampson's Visit to New York.
His Experiences and- Impressions. ..."
2. Memoirs of the American Folk-lore Society by American Folklore Society (1896)
"If the fall "line storm" clears off warm, it signifies that storms through that fall
... The contrary would happen if cool weather followed the line storm. ..."
3. Current Superstitions: Collected from the Oral Tradition of English Speaking by Fanny Dickerson Bergen, William Wells Newell (1896)
"If the fall "line storm" clears off warm, it signifies that storms through that fall
... The contrary would happen if cool weather followed the line storm. ..."
4. Terry's Japanese Empire by Thomas Philip Terry (1914)
"The great annual Sept. gale — ' The gigantic Stormwind of the equinox' — is
accountable for much of this damage. This line storm, of the autumnal equinox ..."
5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1897)
"These storms, as the writer has pointed out in an account of the thunderstorms
of New England, advance, when well developed, in a long line (storm-front) ..."
6. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Superior Court of the City of by New York (City) Superior Court, Joseph S. Bosworth, Benjamin Vaughan Abbott, Austin Abbott (1865)
"... on the next day "it was a very heavy line gale, a " September line storm and
a very heavy one too." The captain stated, "It was a pretty bard storm. ..."
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