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HAILSTONE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does hailstone mean?
• HAILSTONE (noun)
The noun HAILSTONE has 1 sense:
1. small pellet of ice that falls during a hailstorm
Familiarity information: HAILSTONE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small pellet of ice that falls during a hailstorm
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Hypernyms ("hailstone" is a kind of...):
ice; water ice (water frozen in the solid state)
Holonyms ("hailstone" is a part of...):
hail (precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents)
Context examples
A shower of rain drove down upon us, each drop stinging like a hailstone.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Neither is this at all to be wondered at, because nature, in that country, observing the same proportion through all her operations, a hailstone is near eighteen hundred times as large as one in Europe; which I can assert upon experience, having been so curious as to weigh and measure them.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
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