weather gauge

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The Esmeraldo Weather Center in Camagüey registered winds of more than 124 miles per hour before part of the weather gauge blew off.

From New York Times • Sep. 9, 2017

As soon as identification was certain, Captain Wellsby hauled to windward to hold the weather gauge and Colonel Stuart called the men to quarters.

From Blackbeard: Buccaneer by Schoonover, Frank Earle

We’ll get the weather gauge on her, for she doesn’t smell sweet.”

From The Island of Gold A Sailor's Yarn by Stables, Gordon

She had tacked several times to keep the weather gauge, which it was Captain Stanhope’s wish to obtain.

From Owen Hartley; or, Ups and Downs A Tale of Land and Sea by Kingston, William Henry Giles

I have to be kind of sharp and straight up and down in my dealin's; they'd get the weather gauge on me a dozen times a day if I wa'n't.

From Thankful's Inheritance by Lincoln, Joseph Crosby