thunder-gustn.
Chiefly U.S.
A strong gust of wind accompanying a thunder-storm.
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?1748 B. Franklin Let. in Exper. & Observ. Electr. (1751) 46 Hence thunder-gusts after heats, and cool air after gusts.
1817 P. B. Shelley Laon & Cythna iv. xx. 85 Like a thunder gust Caught by some forest.
1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller (1849) 389 A terrible black thundergust was coming up.
1854 G. Bancroft Hist. Amer. Revol. III. xiii. 241 During a violent thunder-gust and rain, Ulloa landed, with civil officers, three Capucine monks, and eighty soldiers.
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