thunderstone
Noun
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Noun
thunderstone (plural thunderstones)
- (archaic) A thunderbolt.
- A stone or fossil thought to be, or be caused by, a thunderbolt striking the earth.
- 1985, Wade Davis (anthropologist), The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, p. 94:
- Thunderstones are sacred to the vodounist, forged as they are by Sobo and Shango, the spirits of thunder and lightning.
- 1985, Wade Davis (anthropologist), The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, p. 94:
- A belemnite.
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