THUNDERBOLTS
Noun
thunderbolts
plural of thunderbolt
Source: Wiktionary
THUNDERBOLT
Thun"der*bolt`, n.
1. A shaft of lightning; a brilliant stream of electricity passing
from one part of the heavens to another, or from the clouds to the
earth.
2. Something resembling lightning in suddenness and effectiveness.
The Scipios' worth, those thunderbolts of war. Dryden.
3. Vehement threatening or censure; especially, ecclesiastical
denunciation; fulmination.
He severely threatens such with the thunderbolt of excommunication.
Hakewill.
4. (Paleon.)
Definition: A belemnite, or thunderstone. Thunderbolt beetle (Zoöl.), a
long-horned beetle (Arhopalus fulminans) whose larva bores in the
trunk of oak and chestnut trees. It is brownish and bluish-black,
with W-shaped whitish or silvery markings on the elytra.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition