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Hailstone   Listen
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Hailstone  n.  A single particle of ice falling from a cloud; a frozen raindrop; a pellet of hail.






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"Hailstone" Quotes from Famous Books



... floating with great rapidity, open currents of air so violent as suddenly to chill the atmosphere and produce the most destructive hailstorms. I have seen some hailstones the size of an egg. It is dangerous to be abroad during these storms. A Cheyenne Indian was lately struck by a hailstone, and remained senseless for ...
— The Great Salt Lake Trail • Colonel Henry Inman

... comes a hailstone. It drops into the southeast corner of this cyclone and there you are! It generates a tornado and That is the Thing ...
— The Way of the Wind • Zoe Anderson Norris

... the Pushut river, which is much swollen from the heavy rain on the 4th. Thunder and hailstone common, clear days decidedly rare in the ...
— Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and The - Neighbouring Countries • William Griffith



Words linked to "Hailstone" :   ice



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