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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
hailstone
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 on my knee, which must have got in through the air vent.
▪ In this way, the children became spread out instead of all clustering together with the coins descending on them like hailstones.
▪ One great big hailstone, right?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hailstone

Hailstone \Hail"stone`\ (-st[=o]n`), n. A single particle of ice falling from a cloud; a frozen raindrop; a pellet of hail.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
hailstone

Old English hagolstan; see hail (n.) + stone (n.).

Wiktionary
hailstone

n. A single ball of hail, or solid precipitation

WordNet
hailstone

n. small pellet of ice that falls during a hailstorm

Wikipedia
Hailstone (disambiguation)

Hailstone typically refers to a piece of hail.

Hailstone may also refer to:

  • Samuel Hailstone (1768–1851), an English botanist
  • Operation Hailstone, a 1944 American military operation against Japan

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.