fork lightning

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fork lightning (usually uncountable, plural fork lightnings)

  1. Lightning that contains bolts that branch.
    • 1959, Moore Raymond, Smiley Roams the Road, London: Hulton Press, page 131:
      It did not occur to him to be afraid of the vivid fork lightning or the loud thunder that reverberated down the valley.
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