Meanings
nounhurricano (plural hurricanos or hurricanoes)
plural hurricanos · plural hurricanoes
- obsoleteA waterspout; a hurricane.
You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout.
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]2 more examples
And downe the shower impetuously doth fall, Like that which men the Hurricano call...
1627, Michael Drayton, Battaile of Agincourt...For I am possess'd With whirle-winds, and each guilty thought to me is A dreadfull Hurricano...
1639, Philip Massinger, The Unnatural Combat
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