Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Lightning that appears as a broad sheetlike illumination of parts of a thundercloud, caused by the reflection of a lightning flash.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. See lightning, 2.
Wiktionary
- n. A broad flash of lightning, with no visible bolt, due to reflection.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. a diffused glow of electric light flashing out from the clouds, and illumining their outlines. The appearance is sometimes due to the reflection of light from distant flashes of lightning by the nearer clouds.
- n. etc. See under Lightning, Piling, etc.
Examples
“Each time dark steel forged in Thakan'dar, below the slopes of Shayol Ghul, met red-gold Power-wrought blade, light flashed like sheet lightning in the room, a sharp bluish white that hurt the eyes.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘sheet lightning’.
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three sheets to the wind
go on, give me sheet about these puns.
sheetrock, balance sheet, silk sheets, sheet music, spreadsheet, mainsheet, bedsheet, curling sheet, three sheets to t..., cheat sheet, advance-sheet, termsheet and 50 more...
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I Hate Perfume
I'm setting off with real perfume names as bestowed by Christopher Brosius of I Hate Perfume. But perhaps wordies can help him come up with some more?
in the library, winter 1972, i am a dandelion, russian caravan tea, wild hunt, mr hulot's holiday, fire from heaven, eternal return, burning leaves, in the summer kit..., just breathe, memory of kindness and 52 more...
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Weather: Those Aren't Cats and Dogs!
Unusual weather and environmental phenomena.
parhelion, sun dog, weathergaw, ball lightning, green sun, ice bomb, slithering rocks, monster raindrops, megacryometeor, raining frogs, raining fish, dust devil and 108 more...
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Wild Weather
anabatic wind, stratiform, fractostratus, frazil slush, isodrosotherm, mammatus clouds, macroburst, nimbostratus, ribbon lightning, staccato lightning, subtropical jet, suction vortex and 76 more...
Tweets
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