A storm of thunder and lightning, usually accompanied with heavy rain.
1652. Bp. Hall, Invis. World, I. vi. A fearful thunder-storm arose.
1794. Mrs. Radcliffe, Myst. Udolpho, xxxi. Along the open glen,… less dangerous than the woods in a thunder-storm.
1839. Darwin, Voy. Nat., iii. (1852), 62. In the year 1793 one of the most destructive thunder-storms perhaps on record happened at Buenos Ayres.
1865. ‘L. Carroll,’ Alice in Wonderland, ix. There stood the Queen … frowning like a thunderstorm.
transf. 1877. M. Prior, in Daily News, 1 Oct., 6/3. No troops could … live in such a thunderstorm of leaden hail.
