fork lightning

noun

fork lightning

noun

1

Usually Lightning 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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