Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various mineral concretions, such as a belemnite, formerly supposed to be thunderbolts.
- noun Archaic A flash of lightning conceived as a stone; a thunderbolt.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
thunderbolt , 1, 2. - noun Same as
thunderbolt , 3 and .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A thunderbolt, -- formerly believed to be a stone.
- noun (Paleon.) A belemnite. See
Belemnite .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaic A
thunderbolt . - noun A stone or fossil of a kind once thought to be fallen thunderbolts.
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Examples
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The "thunderstone" is usually "a beautifully polished, wedge-shaped piece of greenstone," says a writer in the _Cornhill Magazine_, 50-517.
The Book of the Damned Charles Fort
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I should like to send out a report that a "thunderstone" had fallen, say, somewhere in New Hampshire --
The Book of the Damned Charles Fort
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Then send out a report that a "thunderstone" had fallen at Stockholm, say --
The Book of the Damned Charles Fort
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He describes the "thunderstone" as an "agglomeration of brick, soot, unburned coal, and cinder."
The Book of the Damned Charles Fort
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Meunier tells of another "thunderstone" said to have fallen in North
The Book of the Damned Charles Fort
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June 20, 1880, it was reported that a "thunderstone" had struck the house at 180 Oakley Street, Chelsea, falling down the chimney, into the kitchen grate.
The Book of the Damned Charles Fort
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"thunderstone," which he had brought from Jamaica.
The Book of the Damned Charles Fort
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November 13th, 2007 at 11: 03 am brooklyn says: oh, and stripper name: santana thunderstone.
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She looked at him with her big old black eyes and saw the two faces, the deep lightning-flash red ridge, and the thunderstone scar running from chin to hairline.
Bottled Spider Gardner, John 2002
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He placed a thunderstone—a pierre tonnerre—in an enamel dish and covered it with a magical potion.
The Serpent and the Rainbow Wade Davis 1985
alexz commented on the word thunderstone
The examples for thunderstone listed above mostly refer to meteorites. http://books.google.ca/books?id=J0tJAAAAYAAJ
November 4, 2013