lightning conductor

British  

noun

1. a metal strip terminating in a series of sharp points, attached to the highest part of a building, etc, to discharge the electric field before it can reach a dangerous level and cause a lightning strike

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Example Sentences

We are also about to find out what happens when the lightning conductor is removed from a building and it remains stormy.

From BBC • Feb. 9, 2026

You hear of microphones being hit by lightning; and the scaffolding around the stage is basically a lightning conductor.

From BBC • May 22, 2018

Kennedy’s firsthand experience of visceral hunger in America ran as a lightning conductor through his run for the White House.

From The Guardian • Apr. 21, 2018

In general, Shapiro sees Shakespeare in a more benign context as a lightning conductor for American political and economic culture.

From The Guardian • Apr. 9, 2016

In England, the first lightning conductor upon a church was not put up until 1762, ten years after Franklin's discovery.

From History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom by White, Andrew Dickson