auction gale noun an equinoctial gale CANADA “Auction” echoes the sound of “equinoctial”.
An “auction gale,” in Nova Scotia, is an equinoctial gale (at the time of the solstice), often very fierce and sometimes so bad that “you may as well sell up and move out.” — Lewis Poteet, TheSouthShorePhrase Book, p. 16, 1999