hurricano

English

Noun

hurricano (plural hurricanos or hurricanoes)

1. (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.