thunder-wheel

English

Noun

thunder-wheel (plural thunder-wheels)

  1. (literary) One of a set of supposed heavenly wheels that cause thunder when they roll.
    • 1887, H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure‎:
      Nearer it came, and nearer yet, till it was close upon us, rolling down like all the thunder-wheels of heaven behind the horses of the lightning.
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