Meanings
plural thunderlights
- nonstandardrareLightning; a bolt or flash of lightning.
A pillar of fire something like a thunderlight was seen for 30 minutes. No sound was accompanied.
1986, Association for the Development of Earthquake Prediction (Japan), Earthquake prediction research1 more example
This powerful but disquieting thunderlight circled the tiny body with the idiot speed of the atmosphere surrounding a gas giant—Jupiter, say, or Saturn.
1995, Stephen King, Insomnia
Origin
- Middle Englishthonderlyht
- Englishthunderlight
From Middle English thonderlyht, equivalent to thunder + light.
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