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ˈthunder-crack arch. or dial.
= thunder-clap. a. lit.
c1440Jacob's Well 203 Þe feend, wyth a thunder-crakke, smote doun þe cherche to þe grounde. 1560Pilkington Expos. Aggeus (1562) 180 The cloudes burstes, & the thunder-cracke comes. 1622S. Ward Life of Faith in Death (1627) 79 Like fooles that feare the thunder cracke, and not the Bolt. a1834R. Surtees Poems in Taylor Life 317 The sky looks..black, And so we get a thunder-crack.
†b. transf. Obs.
1595B. Barnes Spir. Sonn. xxxiii, Thrice puissant generall..Whose voyce itselfe is dreadfull thunder-cracke.
†c. fig. Obs.
1577T. Vautrollier Luther on Ep. Gal. 25 The Pope..rappeth out his thundercrackes and cursings against the miserable and terrified in conscience. 1624Middleton Game at Chess ii. ii. 179 Those thunder-cracks of pride, Ushering a storm of malice. 1646P. Bulkeley Gospel Covt. i. 68 Had they not heard those thundercrackes? |