ˈthunder-blast, n. Chiefly poet.
a. A peal or clap of thunder. b. A stroke of ‘thunder’. Also fig.
| 13.. Cursor M. 18075 (Cott.) Þar come a steuen als thoner blast. c 1440 Bone Flor. 1643 Hys doghtur schulde be strekyn downe Wyth a thonder blaste. 1558 T. Phaer æneid i. C j b, My son, that of the thunderblastes of hye Joue setst but light. 1839 Bailey Festus xxiii. (1854) 414 Be still, ye thunderblasts and hills of fire! 1884 Tennyson Becket iii. iii, The Pope's last letters..threaten The immediate thunder-blast of interdict. |
So ˈthunder-ˌblasted a., blasted with ‘thunder’, struck by lightning.
| 1614 Jackson Creed iii. xvi. §5 God will not haue true faith thunderblasted in the tender blade. 1818 Scott Br. Lamm. xi, Our thunder-blasted dinner. a 1849 Poe To One in Paradise 19 The thunder-blasted tree. |