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Chain lightning   /tʃeɪn lˈaɪtnɪŋ/   Listen
Chain lightning

noun
1.
A form of lightning that moves rapidly in a zigzag path with one end divided (fork-like).  Synonym: forked lightning.






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"Chain lightning" Quotes from Famous Books



... the Liberty party leaders struck Garrison as a kind of mental and moral enormity. At it and its authors, the anti-slavery Jupiter, launched his bolts, fast and furious. Here is a specimen of his chain lightning: "We have a very poor opinion of the intelligence of any man, and very great distrust of his candor or honesty, who tries to make it appear that no pro-slavery compromise was made between the North and the South, at the adoption of the Constitution. We ...
— William Lloyd Garrison - The Abolitionist • Archibald H. Grimke



Words linked to "Chain lightning" :   lightning



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