A shaft of lightning; a brilliant stream of the electrical fluid, passing from one part of the heavens to another, and particularly from the clouds’ to the’ earth.Psalm 78:48.

Figuratively, a daring or irresistible hero; as the Scipios, those thunderbolts of war.

Fulmination; ecclesiastical denunciation. He severely threatens such with the thunderbolt of excommunication.

In mineralogy, thunder-stone.