thunderstone

noun — 3 senses

thunderstone

noun

Etymology From thunder + stone.

1

Archaic A thunderbolt.

2

A stone or fossil thought to be, or be caused by, a thunderbolt striking the earth.

  • Thunderstones are sacred to the vodounist, forged as they are by Sobo and Shango, the spirits of thunder and lightning.1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, page 94:
3

A belemnite.

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