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Sheet lightning

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Noun
  1. 1
    A broad flash of lightning, with no visible bolt, due to reflection. uncountable, usually

    "In most very warm days in summer the thermometer stands above 70 degrees on the scale of Fahrenheit, about the centre of the county; in the summer of 1811, it stood repeatedly above 80°; and on the 25th of May, 1807, during the time when the sheet lightning of tropical regions appeared, about three in the afternoon, it stood at 92° in the shade within three miles of Moffat!"

  2. 2
    lightning that appears as a broad sheet; due to reflections of more distant lightning and to diffusion by the clouds wordnet

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