Hailstone

//ˈheɪlstoʊn// name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A single ball of hail, or solid precipitation
  2. 2
    small pellet of ice that falls during a hailstorm wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.

Synonyms

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hail

Example

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"She saw a hailstone the size of a golfball."

Etymology

From Middle English hailston, haylestone, hawelston, hawleston, from Old English hagolstān (“hailstone”), from Proto-West Germanic *haglastain, from Proto-Germanic *haglastainaz, equivalent to hail + stone. Cognate with West Frisian heilstien (“hailstone”), Saterland Frisian Hailsteen (“hailstone”), Dutch hagelsteen (“hailstone”), German Low German Hagelsteen (“hailstone”), German Hagelstein (“hailstone”), Swedish hagelsten (“hailstone”), Icelandic haglsteinn (“hailstone”).

Related phrases

hailstone number

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