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hailstone
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Word definitions for hailstone in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English hagolstan ; see hail (n.) + stone (n.).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hailstone \Hail"stone`\ (-st[=o]n`), n. A single particle of ice falling from a cloud; a frozen raindrop; a pellet of hail.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ And in 1958, a Sussex storm delivered a 5oz hailstone , Britain's heaviest ever. ▪ He and Jimmy lay beneath the wagon as a barrage of hailstones beat hard on the planks above. ▪ I found a small but perfectly-formed hailstone ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A single ball of hail, or solid precipitation
Usage examples of hailstone.
It had been a full eighteen months before Mace had succumbed to clan pressure to cut his waist-length hair, and a year after that before he finally exchanged his measure of powdered Scarpestone for one from the Hailstone instead.
Stone Gods would send ice into the heart of the Hailstone for the wrongs done by clansmen this night.
In the same way that the Hailstone was heart of clan, this chamber was the heart of the fort.
Bink said, wincing as an egg-sized red hailstone just missed his head.
It was a giant among boars, they said, marked black and silver like the Hailstone itself.
Inside it was dark, and outside the wind had taken up whistling, the hailstones rattling a fast tattoo against the walls.
I stood under these bleachers, hailstones popping all around us, like we were trapped inside this really big popcorn popper.
Ruth moaned as the wind picked up and started whipping hailstones at us beneath the bleachers.
The sky had gotten much lighter, and underneath my feet the hailstones were crunching, as if someone up there had accidentally overturned some kind of celestial ice cube tray.
Colored hailstones were mounded up two feet high, and the sun was not yet out.
His feet slid out from under, skidding on hailstones, and he fell headlong into the pile.
They went out into the piled hailstones, stepping carefully so as not to take any more spills.
The great buildings about me stood out clear and distinct, shining with the wet of the thunderstorm, and picked out in white by the unmelted hailstones piled along their courses.
Big hailstones smashed into their bodies, and the hailstones were on fire and they burned the skin when they touched and they arrived with mind-numbing impact.
Here, a young man, who was passing, stops to catch some of the hailstones in his hand, and examines them.