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ˈthunder-gust Chiefly U.S.
A strong gust of wind accompanying a thunder-storm.
1748Franklin Lett. Wks. 1840 V. 220 Hence thunder⁓gusts after heats, and cool air after gusts. 1817Shelley Revolt of Islam iv. xx, Like a thunder gust Caught by some forest. 1824W. Irving T. Trav. (1849) 389 A terrible black thundergust was coming up. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. IV. xxxvii. 122 During a violent thunder-gust and rain, Ulloa landed, with civil officers, three Capuchin monks, and eighty soldiers. |