thunder-stonen.
/ˈθʌndəstəʊn/, U.S. /ˈθəndərˌstoʊn/ 1. = thunderbolt n. 1. archaic.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > one who or that which destroys > thunder or lightning as a destructive agency
thunderc893
thunder-dintc1374
thunder-flonec1380
thunder-blasta1400
thunderboltc1440
thunder-stone1598
thunder-clap1610
thunderstrokea1616
trisulc1637
thunder-ball1820
1598 J. Marston Certaine Satyres in Metamorph. Pigmalions Image 68 Enuie, let Pines of Ida rest alone, For they will growe spight of thy thunder stone.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) i. iii. 49 I..Haue bar'd my Bosome to the Thunder-stone . View more context for this quotation
1679 J. Dryden & N. Lee Oedipus iv. 63 You merciless Pow'rs, Hoord up your Thunder-stones.
1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound iv. i. 140 Sceptred curse..sending A solid cloud to rain hot thunder-stones.
1888 J. R. Lowell Heartsease & Rue 70 Splintered with thunder-stone.
2. Applied to various stones, fossils, etc., formerly identified with ‘thunderbolts’, as celts, belemnites, masses of pyrites, meteorites: = thunderbolt n. 3.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > stone > a stone > [noun] > stone with mythical properties > siderite or thunderstone
siderites1553
siderite1610
thunderbolt1618
thunder-stone1681
1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis iii. i. i. 258 Thunder-Stone or hard Button-Stone. Brontias. So called, for that people think they fall sometimes with Thunder.
a1701 H. Maundrell Journey Aleppo to Jerusalem (1703) 51 Each tube had a small cavity in it's center, from which it's parts were projected in form of rays, to the circumference, after the manner of the stones vulgarly call'd Thunder-stones.
c1710 C. Fiennes Diary (1888) 218 Ye oare as its just dug Lookes like ye thunderstone.
1778 Encycl. Brit. II. 1090/1 Belemnites, vulgarly called thunder-bolts or thunder-stones.
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 16 Norway produces..amethysts, agates, thunder-stones, and eagle-stones.
1802 Howard in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 92 169 Because explosion and report have generally accompanied the descent of [meteorolites], the name of thunderbolt, or thunderstone, has ignorantly attached itself to them.
1907 Q. Rev. July 176 The ‘thunderstones’ were of human workmanship.
3. poetic. Applied to a (? stone) cannon-ball.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > ammunition for firearms > [noun] > bullet or ball > cannonball
stone of iron1511
bullet1557
bombard1575
round shot1576
cannonball1606
pill1618
shot1622
bumbass1663
round1707
thunder-stone1822
bolt1871
nigger baby1872
1822 P. B. Shelley Hellas 20 The..allies Fled from the glance of our artillery Almost before the thunderstone alit.
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