hurricano

English

Noun

hurricano (plural hurricanos or hurricanoes)

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

References

“hurricano”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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