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Chain lightning

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chain lightning

–noun
1. Chiefly Northeastern and Western U.S. lightning that seems to move very quickly in wavy or zigzag lines.
2. bead lightning.

Origin:
1825–35, Americanism

bead lightning

–noun
lightning in which the intensity appears to vary along the path and which thus resembles a string of beads.


Origin:
1900–05
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