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rainstorm

rainstorm

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rainstorm (plural rainstorms)

  1. A storm characterized by substantial, heavy rainfall.
    • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 8, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
      Philander went into the next room [] and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm. Then he put the coffee pot on the stove and rummaged out a loaf of dry bread and some hardtack.

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