foulder

intransitive verb

-ed/-ing/-s

obsolete

: flash

loud thunder … did rend the rattling skies with flames of fouldering heat

—Edmund Spenser

Word History

Etymology

obsolete foulder, noun, lightning, from Middle English fouldre, foudre, from Middle French

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