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rainmaker
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A native american medicine man who induces rain by rituals. 2 A person who induces rainfall through scientific methods (i.e. silver iodide cloud seeding). 3 (figurative) An employee of a company who creates a large amount of unexpected business, consistently ...
Wikipedia
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Rainmaker is YFriday 's debut album. Released in 1999 before the band went full-time the album contains the well known track "Holy, Holy, Holy".
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also rain-maker , 1775, in reference to American Indian tribal magicians, from rain (n.) + agent noun of make (v.).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. executive who is very successful in bringing in business to his company or firm American indian medicine man who attempt to make it rain
Usage examples of rainmaker.
Sarah Rainmaker dropped to one knee, then lowered herself to hands and knees, sighting along the grass.
After a while, they were joined by Sarah Rainmaker, a tall, beautiful Native American girl from Arizona.
Burnout and Rainmaker stood shoulder to shoulder, throwing everything they could muster through the hatchway, sweat running down their cheeks.
If the tribe has no Rainmaker, they must find another tribe to travel with during migration.
Soon, the Rainmaker would do a fade-out, while Allard, accustomed to high altitudes, could certainly outlast him.
They lugged the unconscious Rainmaker out through the corridor and down an obscure stairway, that brought them to an alley.
None the less, these lesser lights of crime had missed an opportunity that their chief would have regarded as far more important than the capture of the Rainmaker, Harvey Lanyon.
Thought of Lanyon brought another chuckle to Querlon, because the public had not yet learned that the Rainmaker was missing.
The Shadow had caught a flash of that, from rebuking looks that Dansell and Tretter had given Lanyon at the time the Rainmaker kicked over the traces.
He asked if the Rainmaker had learned the location of this headquarters.
The Shadow ended his chat with Lanyon by motioning the Rainmaker back on the rack.
The rainmaker got some of that, and taking a short piece of waratah stick from his hair in which it was concealed he smeared it with red ochre.
It was the sacred stick of the rainmaker of thousands of years before.
The rest went on up to the church, and already the rainmaker had begun the service.
The priest and the youth talked about it and it was agreed that the rainmaker must die.