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Chain lightning   /tʃeɪn lˈaɪtnɪŋ/   Listen
Chain lightning

noun
1.
A form of lightning that moves rapidly in a zigzag path with one end divided (fork-like).  Synonym: forked lightning.






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"Chain lightning" Quotes from Famous Books



... a scene of horror indescribable. Overhead the storm burst in fury, and flash after flash of fork, or rather chain lightning, leapt into the river. The thunder, too, began to crack like the trump of doom; the wind rushed down, tearing the surface of the water into foam, and, catching under the tent of the cart, lifted it quite off the wheels, so that it began to float. Then the two leaders, made mad with fear by ...
— Jess • H. Rider Haggard

... gazed into Halemaumau's terrifying depths. "It looked," he writes, "like a colossal railroad-map of the State of Massachusetts done in chain lightning on a midnight sky. Imagine it—imagine a coal-black sky shivered into a tangled ...
— The Book of the National Parks • Robert Sterling Yard



Words linked to "Chain lightning" :   lightning, forked lightning



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