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

He has the weather gauge of us now, or will have.

From For Love of Country A Story of Land and Sea in the Days of the Revolution by Brady, Cyrus Townsend

The British manoeuvred to get the weather gauge; Villaret-Joyeuse to keep it.

From The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders by Scott, Ernest

Each is scheming to obtain or retain the liberty of manoeuvre, in the same way as, in the days of sailing ships, a naval commander strove to get the "weather gauge" in every encounter.

From Lectures on Land Warfare; A tactical Manual for the Use of Infantry Officers An Examination of the Principles Which Underlie the Art of Warfare, with Illustrations of the Principles by Examples Taken from Military History, from the Battle of Thermopylae, B.C. 480, to the Battle of the Sambre, November 1-11, 1918 by Anonymous

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