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HURRICANE

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 959 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HURRICANE , a See also:

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

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