fork lightning

noun

Lightning that contains bolts that branch.

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Meanings

nounfork lightning (usually uncountable, plural fork lightnings)

plural fork lightnings

  1. uncountableusuallyLightning that contains bolts that branch.

    It did not occur to him to be afraid of the vivid fork lightning or the loud thunder that reverberated down the valley.

    1959, Moore Raymond, Smiley Roams the Road, London: Hulton Press, page 131
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