Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A pellet of hail.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A single pellet of hail. See hail.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A single particle of ice falling from a cloud; a frozen raindrop; a pellet of hail.
WordNet 3.0
- n. small pellet of ice that falls during a hailstorm
Etymologies
- hail + stone (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Federal climate officials have confirmed the hailstone is the heaviest ever recorded on the continent.”
“A shower of rain drove down upon us, each drop stinging like a hailstone.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The growth of a hailstone is generally quite uniform, and it ends up roughly spherical.”
The Guardian: Weatherwatch: The ups and downs of a ball of ice
“White layers of soft ice build up when the nascent hailstone gathers supercooled water droplets and ice crystals.”
The Guardian: Weatherwatch: The ups and downs of a ball of ice
“Slice open a hailstone and you'll find a series of concentric rings, like the layers of an onion.”
The Guardian: Weatherwatch: The ups and downs of a ball of ice
“A hailstone repeatedly falls and is carried up by air currents as it grows inside a cloud, until it is too heavy to support.”
The Guardian: Weatherwatch: The ups and downs of a ball of ice
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘hailstone’.
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (H)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
haberdashery, hailstone, halcyon, halibut, halo, hamadryad, hammock, harangue, harbour, harebell, harlequin, harp and 104 more...
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(more or less) Temporary Urth List
Temporary list is temporary.
Collecting a few words here, which are then to be alloted to other lists.vassal, gnaw, putrescence, liege, pederasty, disseminate, loot, waning, fitful, hiatuse, plow, pious and 292 more...
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Words for ice and snow
Environmental Ice and Snow
(excluding all the food ice)ice, icicle, frazil, frasil, sleet, slush, snow, flurry, snowfall, freeze, flash-freeze, quick-freeze and 618 more...
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