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Encyclopedia Britannica



HURRICANE

This article appears in Volume V13, Page 959 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: HOR-I25
HURRICANE , a wind-
storm
  of
great
  force and violence, originally as experienced in the West Indies; it is now used to describe similar storms in other regions, except in the
East
  Indies and the Chinese seas, where they are generally known as " typhoons." Hurricane is the strongest force of wind in the Beaufort scale. The Caribbean word huracan was introduced by the Portuguese, Spanish and Dutch explorers of the 15th and 16th centuries into many
European
 
languages
 , as in Span. huracan, Portu. furacao, Ital. uracane, Fr. ouragan, and in Swed., Ger. and Dutch as orkan, or orkaan. A " hurricane-deck " is an upper deck on a steamer which protects the
lower
  one, and incidentally serves as a
promenade
 .


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