thundergust

If a thundergust happens when the hogsheads are in the highest state of fermentation, the working will nearly cease, and the stuff begin to contract an acidity.

The Practical Distiller An Introduction To Making Whiskey, Gin, Brandy, Spirits, &c. &c. of Better Quality, and in Larger Quantities, than Produced by the Present Mode of Distilling, from the Produce of the United States

This kite is to be raised when a thundergust appears to be coming on, and the person who holds the string must stand within a door or window, or under some cover, so that the silk ribbon may not be wet; and care must be taken that the twine does not touch the frame of the door or window.

Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers

The response came with such a thundergust from the motley crew that the crazy building vibrated to the sound.

The Prince and the Pauper

Then the audience on the hurricane deck sent up a thundergust of humiliating laughter.

Life on the Mississippi

-- Good your grace, an 'I had room for such a thundergust within mine ancient bowels, 'tis not in reason I coulde discharge ye same and live to thank God for yt He did choose handmaid so humble whereby to shew his power.

1601

Then the audience on the hurricane deck sent up a thundergust of humiliating laughter.

Life on the Mississippi, Part 3.

Then the audience on the hurricane deck sent up a thundergust of humiliating laughter.

Life on the Mississippi

All summer long, they have murmured like the noise of waters; they have roared loudly, while the branches were wrestling with the thundergust; they have made music, both glad and solemn; they have attuned my thoughts by their quiet sound, as I paced to-and-fro beneath the arch of intermingling boughs.

Mosses from an Old Manse

They said the worst thing they could of it, "That it was a blasted thundergust mill, and not worth a man's while to be fooling about it with his corn, as long as he could get it ground any where else, if it was ten miles off!"

Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion. In Two Volumes. Vol. I.

The thundergust which had hitherto detained the company was now at an end.

Tales of a Traveller