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 ofhail .
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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Examples
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Federal climate officials have confirmed the hailstone is the heaviest ever recorded on the continent.
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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.
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Slice open a hailstone and you'll find a series of concentric rings, like the layers of an onion.
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A hailstone repeatedly falls and is carried up by air currents as it grows inside a cloud, until it is too heavy to support.
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White layers of soft ice build up when the nascent hailstone gathers supercooled water droplets and ice crystals.
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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.
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A shower of rain drove down upon us, each drop stinging like a hailstone.
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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.
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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.
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The growth of a hailstone is generally quite uniform, and it ends up roughly spherical.
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