thunderstone

English

Etymology

From thunder +‎ stone.

Noun

thunderstone (plural thunderstones)

  1. (archaic) A thunderbolt.
  2. A stone or fossil thought to be, or be caused by, a thunderbolt striking the earth.
    • 1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, p. 94:
      Thunderstones are sacred to the vodounist, forged as they are by Sobo and Shango, the spirits of thunder and lightning.
  3. A belemnite.

References
  • thunderstone in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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