A lightning rod is a metal rod mounted on a structure and intended to protect the structure from a lightning strike.
Other uses Lightning Rod (roller coaster), a roller coaster located at Dollywood theme park in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee Lightning Rods (novel), a novel by Helen DeWitt Lightning Conductor (film), a 1938 British comedy thriller film The Lightning Rods, another name for the Great Lakes Avengers Jalal Mansur Nuriddin, an American poet and musician who used the name Lightnin' Rod.