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Chain lightning   /tʃeɪn lˈaɪtnɪŋ/   Listen
Chain lightning

noun
1.
A form of lightning that moves rapidly in a zigzag path with one end divided (fork-like).  Synonym: forked lightning.





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... members of Congress which looked as if excitability were not limited to women. It is said that 'the legal male mind' is the only mind fit for suffrage." Miss Shaw then made her wit play around the legal male mind like chain lightning. "It is said that women are illogical, and jump to their conclusions, flea-like. I shall not try to prove that women are logical, for I know they are not, but it is beyond me how men ever got it into their heads that they are. When ...
— The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV • Various
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Words linked to "Chain lightning" :   lightning, forked lightning


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