drencher

Back here in S'pore, we received another all-day drencher this past Tuesday, although conditions weren't quite as bad as last week.

Archive 2006-12-01 JDsg 2006

Back here in S'pore, we received another all-day drencher this past Tuesday, although conditions weren't quite as bad as last week.

Shards JDsg 2006

The weather broke and there was a sudden sharp storm, the sort of summer drencher which ends a great heat, accompanied by a good deal of thunder.

Cargo of Eagles Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966. n 50021032-1 1968

The weather broke and there was a sudden sharp storm, the sort of summer drencher which ends a great heat, accompanied by a good deal of thunder.

Cargo of Eagles Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966. n 50021032-1 1968

Mr. Mabie said that when it did come we'd likely get a drencher.

The Outdoor Chums After Big Game Or, Perilous Adventures in the Wilderness Quincy Allen

A thunderstorm went by to the north and flicked its wing over the island, and in the night there came a drencher and a howling wind slap over us.

The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories 1906

Certain things were clear to her now; the unknown drencher of beds, the stranger who had appeared from nowhere and had left her father senseless, were no longer mysteries.

The Angel of Terror Edgar Wallace 1903

Well, the race was run that year in a thunderstorm -- a drencher; and if Foe was right, I guess that finished Gouvernant, who never looked like a winner.

Foe-Farrell Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

Their sleep was disturbed by showers of rain, which interfered with all but the very sound, and even these were fairly roused at last by a regular drencher, the water coming down tropical fashion, in bucketfuls.

For Fortune and Glory A Story of the Soudan War Lewis Hough 1899

Now and then he cast a weather-eye on the heavens, and was soon confirmed in an opinion he had repeatedly ejaculated, that 'the first night's camping would be a drencher.'

Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868