Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A small model of a house with electric conductors so arranged as to show, when a discharge is passed through them, how a building may be injured by lightning.

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Examples

  • I staggered out presently to visit the little private lavatory in an ante-chamber off the drawing-room, and was taken flat aback when who should come out of the thunder-house but the Prince, clad in a silk robe with his beard in a net.

    Watershed 2010

  • I stepped into the thunder-house, palpitating; it was empty so far as I could see, but it was six floors above ground, and by this time I was convinced that there was probably an armed dwarf crouching in the bloody cistern.

    THE NUMBERS 2010

  • I staggered out presently to visit the little private lavatory in an ante-chamber off the drawing-room, and was taken flat aback when who should come out of the thunder-house but the Prince, clad in a silk robe with his beard in a net.

    Flashman And The Tiger Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1999

  • I stepped into the thunder-house, palpitating; it was empty so far as I could see, but it was six floors above ground, and by this time I was convinced that there was probably an armed dwarf crouching in the bloody cistern.

    Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

  • I stepped into the thunder-house, palpitating; it was empty so far as I could see, but it was six floors above ground, and by this time I was convinced that there was probably an armed dwarf crouching in the bloody cistern.

    Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

  • NOVEMBER 6th with our thunder-house features, the psychotic clown, hardcore emcee and raconteur

    GotPoetry.com News 2008

  • NOVEMBER 6th with our thunder-house features, the psychotic clown, hardcore emcee and raconteur

    GotPoetry.com News 2008

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