drencher

Back here in S'pore, we received another all-day drencher this past Tuesday, although conditions weren't quite as bad as last week.

Shards

The weather broke and there was a sudden sharp storm, the sort of summer drencher which ends a great heat, accompanied by a good deal of thunder.

Cargo of Eagles

Mr. Mabie said that when it did come we'd likely get a drencher.

The Outdoor Chums After Big Game Or, Perilous Adventures in the Wilderness

A thunderstorm went by to the north and flicked its wing over the island, and in the night there came a drencher and a howling wind slap over us.

The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories

Well, the race was run that year in a thunderstorm -- a drencher; and if Foe was right, I guess that finished Gouvernant, who never looked like a winner.

Foe-Farrell

Certain things were clear to her now; the unknown drencher of beds, the stranger who had appeared from nowhere and had left her father senseless, were no longer mysteries.

The Angel of Terror

Their sleep was disturbed by showers of rain, which interfered with all but the very sound, and even these were fairly roused at last by a regular drencher, the water coming down tropical fashion, in bucketfuls.

For Fortune and Glory A Story of the Soudan War

Now and then he cast a weather-eye on the heavens, and was soon confirmed in an opinion he had repeatedly ejaculated, that 'the first night's camping would be a drencher.'

Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith

However, you did right in stopping -- I'll own -- a piece of folly, and shutting the mouths of those two; though it caused me to come in for a regular drencher.

Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith

It is going to be a drencher, and it is of no use our getting wet through to begin with.

Condemned as a Nihilist A Story of Escape from Siberia