• grue@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      The name comes from the Age of Sail. Because those persistent high pressure zones are where the winds stalled out, the ships would get becalmed for days or weeks at a time and the crew would be forced to eat their horses to survive.

      At least, that’s one possible origin.