English

Noun

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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See also

• deluge
• hailstorm
• snowstorm
• thunderstorm