thunderlight
nounEtymology From Middle English thonderlyht, equivalent to thunder + light.
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Nonstandard, Rare Lightning; 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 research:
- 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: