Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A pellet of hail.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A single pellet of hail. See hail.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A single particle of ice falling from a cloud; a frozen raindrop; a pellet of hail.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A single ball of hail.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun small pellet of ice that falls during a hailstorm

Etymologies

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hail +‎ stone

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Examples

  • Federal climate officials have confirmed the hailstone is the heaviest ever recorded on the continent.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com 2010

  • National Weather Service Mr. Scott keeps his hailstone, one of his prized possessions, in his white, upright Montgomery Ward Signature frost-free freezer in the basement of his house.

    Mr. Scott's Hefty Hailstone 2011

  • Slice open a hailstone and you'll find a series of concentric rings, like the layers of an onion.

    Weatherwatch: The ups and downs of a ball of ice 2011

  • A hailstone repeatedly falls and is carried up by air currents as it grows inside a cloud, until it is too heavy to support.

    Weatherwatch: The ups and downs of a ball of ice 2011

  • White layers of soft ice build up when the nascent hailstone gathers supercooled water droplets and ice crystals.

    Weatherwatch: The ups and downs of a ball of ice 2011

  • National Weather Service The hailstone, here being weighed on an official postal scale at the tiny U.S. Post Office in Vivian, was one of many huge ones that pummeled the town's roofs and pockmarked cars and pickup trucks last summer.

    Mr. Scott's Hefty Hailstone 2011

  • A shower of rain drove down upon us, each drop stinging like a hailstone.

    Chapter 3 2010

  • Les Scott holds the U.S. record for the two-pound hailstone that fell from the sky during a major thunderstorm in Vivian, S.D., on July 23 last year.

    Mr. Scott's Hefty Hailstone 2011

  • Dionne Searcey/The Wall Street Journal Mr. Scott let National Weather Service meteorologists cast molds of the hailstone at their lab in Boulder, but he wouldn't let them dissect it.

    Mr. Scott's Hefty Hailstone 2011

  • The growth of a hailstone is generally quite uniform, and it ends up roughly spherical.

    Weatherwatch: The ups and downs of a ball of ice 2011

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