The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cloud-burst
Cloud-burst \Cloud"-burst`\, n. A sudden copious rainfall, as if the whole cloud had been precipitated at once.
Wiktionary
cloud-burst
n. (alternative form of cloudburst English)
Usage examples of "cloud-burst".
The crew, ordered to stay at their posts, and the soldiers sent to make sure they did just that, were now unrecognizable lumps of bubbling fat and over-roasted flesh, buried-amidst the glowing embers at the heart of a growing pile of collapsed timbers which had come crashing down into the rapidly-emptying through-deck like a cloud-burst of celestial fire.