1872 Oct. 329 It is the old corruption of the cloud-cow, the rain-giver, the fertilizer,—the earliest idea of Freia.
1922 W. G. Kendrew xx. 110 The south-west monsoon is essentially the rain-giver of India.
1997 35 675 The White Nile..provides a small but steady flow that is fed by the eternal snows of the Ruwenzori (the ‘rain giver’) mountains.