thundersquall

[thuhn-der-skwawl]

noun

Meteorology.

1. a combined squall and thunderstorm.

Word History and Origins

Origin of thundersquall¹

First recorded in 1845–50; thunder + squall ¹

Example Sentences

One was that the wave had been kicked up by a high wind or thundersquall in midlake.

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Then Captain Jim told the story—an old, old forgotten story, for it was over fifty years since Margaret had fallen asleep one day in her father's dory and drifted—or so it was supposed, for nothing was ever certainly known as to her fate—out of the channel, beyond the bar, to perish in the black thundersquall which had come up so suddenly that long-ago summer afternoon.

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