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thunder-stick Hist. 
n. in Indian parlance, a pistol, musket, rifle, etc.
- 1965 Long, long ago, according to the legend, many years before the white man came to shatter the silence of the wilderness with his thunder stick, a band of Indian huntsmen came upon a great animal foraging along the shore of a lake far to the north and west of the sweet-water sea that is now called Lake Superior.
- 1965 Long, long ago, according to the legend, many years before the white man came to shatter the silence of the wilderness with his thunder stick, a band of Indian huntsmen came upon a great animal foraging along the shore of a lake far to the north and west of the sweet-water sea that is now called Lake Superior.