drencher

It was called the Power Drencher.

He said that about five years ago there had been a light shower, and during one of the Ptolemy administrations there had been a regular old drencher.

For example, Cassidy has discovered that in various parts of the U.S. a heavy rain is called a duck drencher, a chunk floater, a clod roller, a toad strangler and a goose drownder.

Say, wouldn’t it be a joke on us now, Jack, if a regular old drencher came on, and soaked us to the skin?

It is going to be a drencher, and it is of no use our getting wet through to begin with.