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hailstone

[ heyl-stohn ]

noun

  1. a pellet of hail.


hailstone

/ ˈheɪlˌstəʊn /

noun

  1. a pellet of hail
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Other Words From

  • hailstoned adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of hailstone1

before 1000; Middle English; Old English hagolstān. See hail 2, stone
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Example Sentences

“Mobile real estate” is becoming an asset class unto itself, a wise investment for a world where flooding could sweep away your home, giant hailstones could smash through its roof, or a sinkhole could emerge at the end of your driveway.

More than a year after Operation Hailstone, Japan surrendered.

Opening this, he exposed to the reporter's bewildered gaze a huge and brilliant diamond—nearly as large as a hailstone.

Dante's poetry seems to come down in hail, rather than in rain—but count me the drops congealed in one hailstone!

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

Though I was semi-unconscious I remember the bullets beating the ground like hailstone on a March day.

A heavy shower of hail was falling,--each hailstone about the size of an egg.

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