Why this word is great
FOULDER — [Verb] To flash like lightning; to lighten; to gleam; to thunder. From Middle English fouldre ("lightning"), from Old French foudre (modern French foudre), from Latin fulgur ("lightning"). Unlike "gleam" (which suggests a steady, soft glow) or "thunder" (which names only the sound), "foulder" captures the violent, ephemeral brilliance of the strike itself. It is the jagged fork splitting the sky, the sudden illumination of a storm-lashed field, or the way a blade might catch the sun for one blinding instant before the blow falls—a reminder that light, too, can be a weapon, and that revelation often comes too quickly to hold.