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/fɔrkt lˈaɪtnɪŋ/ Listen

Forked lightning

noun

A form of lightning that moves rapidly in a zigzag path with one end divided (fork-like). Synonym: chain lightning.

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"Forked lightning" Quotes from Famous Books

... laid on the stem to pluck forth his prize, then is it as if all the fiends of hell were let loose upon him, such shrieking, such howling, such clanging of chains, such crashing of thunder, and such flashing of forked lightning assail him on every side. If his heart fail him but for one moment his life is forfeit. Many a bold heart engaged in this trial has ceased to beat under the fatal tree; many a brave man's body has been found mangled and torn to pieces on that ...

— Folk-lore and Legends: German • Anonymous

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... vigorous bamboo from the forests of the North. That he may increase beyond the prolificness of the white-necked crow and cover the ground after the fashion of the binding grass. That in battle his sword may be as a vividly-coloured and many-forked lightning flash, accompanied by thunderbolts as irresistible as Buddha's divine wrath; in peace his voice as resounding as the rolling of many powerful drums among the Khingan Mountains. That when the kindled fire of his existence returns to the great ...

— The Wallet of Kai Lung • Ernest Bramah

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