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n. - A noisemaker that sounds like the loud and at a distance often rolling sound that follows a flash of lightning due to the sudden expansion of the air in the path of the discharge

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  • Noun : the thunder of applause
  • All these are the offspring of the lord, the Loud-thunderer.
  • Do I not read in you the stories of Jove the thunderer -- and the adulterer?
  • Is Jupiter the thunderer confined to an image? or is Juno or any other deity?
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