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thunderer|ˈθʌndərə(r)|
[f. thunder v. + -er1.]
One who or that which thunders.
1. a. He who thunders or causes thunder: applied to God, or to a deity, as Jupiter or Thor.
c1374Chaucer Boeth. iv. met. vi. 111 (Camb. MS.) The lawes of the heye thonderere, þat is to seyn of god. 1552Huloet, Thundrer, altitonans, tis, a name that the panyms gaue to God. 1611Shakes. Cymb. v. iv. 95 Iupiter... How dare you Ghostes Accuse the Thunderer? 1791Cowper Iliad i. 492 Once the Gods..Conspired to bind the Thund'rer. 1870Bryant Iliad i. I. 23 Make my suit to Jupiter The Thunderer.
b. A person employed at a dramatic representation to imitate thunder by some mechanical means.
1711Addison Spect. No. 235 ⁋2 Others will have it to be the Play-house Thunderer. 1807–8W. Irving Salmag. (1824) 270 It will be a further gratification to the patriotic audience to know that the present thunderer is a fellow-countryman.
2. fig. A resistless warrior; a powerful declaimer or orator, an utterer of violent invective, or the like; spec. as a sobriquet of the London Times newspaper.
1586T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. (1589) 615 Who will not wish to have the surname of Aristides the just..rather than as many use to be called Conquerors, Besiegers, Thunderers? 1784Cowper Task ii. 221 To shake thy senate, and from heights sublime Of patriot eloquence to flash down fire Upon thy foes, was never meant my task: But I can feel thy fortunes..with as true a heart As any thund'rer there. 1830Morning Herald 15 Feb. 3/1 Any person or persons..may receive further particulars..by application..at the office of The Thunderer, Printing House-square. 1840Carlyle Let. 13 June in C. & Lond. Libr. (1907) 58 Six and sixpence—for a Times advertisement, which the Thunderer dunned me for to-day! 1882C. Pebody Eng. Journalism xv. 114 It was the writing of Edward Sterling that gave the Times the name of the ‘Thunderer’. 1884W. M. Dickson in Harper's Mag. June 64/1 He reappeared in the arena, again the thunderer of the scene.
3. Something that makes a noise like thunder; spec. a toy made of a flat thin piece of wood or an ox-rib with a string attached at one end, which makes a roaring noise when whirled round; a ‘bull-roarer’.
1860Tyndall Glac. ii. xxv. 364 A new [shaft] is hollowed out, in which..the cataract plays the thunderer. 1908[Miss E. Fowler] Between Trent & Ancholme 81 ‘Thunderers’, a bricklayer's thin lath, etc. |