Obs. Also 8 travat. [Portuguese travados a kind of whirlwind, pl. of travado, pa. pple. of travar to twine, twist.] A sudden violent storm of wind and rain with thunder and lightning; a tornado.
[1625. Purchas, Pilgrims, II. VII. ii. § 6. 952. Very foule weather there with Thunder and Lightning, (which the Portugals call Trauados).]
1686. Goad, Celest. Bodies, I. i. 2. Those Dire Tempests … known amongst us by the names of Spouts, Huracans, Tornados, Travados.
1770. J. R. Forster, trans. Kalm’s Trav. N. Amer. (1772), II. 63. A peculiar kind of storm called a Travat or Travado, happened to-day.
1867. Smyth, Sailor’s Word-bk., Travado, or Travat, a heavy squall, with sudden gusts of wind, lightning, and rain, on the coast of North America; like the African tornado.
