thunder-wheel

English

Noun

thunder-wheel (plural thunder-wheels)

(literary) One of a set of supposed heavenly wheels that cause thunder when they roll.
- 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
  Nearer it came, and nearer yet, till it was close upon us, rolling down like all the thunder-wheels of heaven behind the horses of the lightning.

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