Definition of "rain-storm" [rain-storm]

• A storm of rain; a rain. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "He returned home on foot at midnight, in a driving rain-storm."
• "Ran into a rain-storm Ducked into a bar door It's all night pouring, pouring rain Lord but not a drop on me Test me, test me, test me, test me Why don't you arrest me Throw me in the jail house Lord, until the sun go down"
• "But Anaurus, swelled by a rain-storm, blotted out the grave and memorial of Cycnus; for so Apollo,"