"toad-strangler" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1940, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, When the whippoorwill:",
          "text": "\"I mean, hit's a toad-strangler of a rain,\" he proffered. \"I mean!\" she agreed. \"Reckon your daddy'll keer, me a-follerin' this-a-way?\" \"Reckon he mought.\"",
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          "ref": "1943, James Hilton, The story of Dr. Wassell:",
          "text": "It's not what I'd call a sprinkle, and it's not a chip washer or a gully washer — it's a real regular toad-strangler, and I've seen 'em like this in Arkansas when it turns all the roads into black gumbo.",
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          "ref": "1998, Sheldon Russell, The Savage Trail:",
          "text": "It rained in memory of Noah, a toad-strangler that threatened to wash them all into a gully that foamed and churned with red water",
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        "A very heavy downpour of rain."
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        "(US, dialectal) A very heavy downpour of rain."
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          "word": "gully-washer"
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          "word": "cob-floater"
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        {
          "alt": "duck-drowner",
          "word": "duck-drownder"
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        {
          "word": "frog-strangler"
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          "alt": "goose-drowner",
          "word": "goose drownder"
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        {
          "word": "lightwood-knot floater"
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          "word": "sod-soaker"
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          "word": "trash-mover"
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          "word": "sheep drowner"
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