The bearer of thunder, or of thunderbolts, i.e., Jupiter. So Thunder-bearing a., that bears or carries thunder, laden with thunder; also fig., bearing cannon.
1605. Shaks., Lear, II. iv. 230. I do not bid the Thunder-bearer shoote, Nor tell tales of thee to high-iudging Ioue.
1661. Ross, Silius Italicus, XVII. 68. Thunder-bearing Birds, descending from The Gods Abodes.
1731. C. Johnson, Medæa, III. i. O Thunder-bearing Jove, most ancient Cause.
1754. M. Morgan, Philoclea, II. iii. (Jod.). And thou, great thunder-bearer Jove, look down.
1823. Byron, Island, II. x. The thunder-bearing strangers came, In vast canoes, begirt with bolts of flame.
