Hailstone
['heɪlstəʊn] or ['helston]
Definition
(n.) A single particle of ice falling from a cloud; a frozen raindrop; a pellet of hail.
Edited by Barton
Examples
- My little morsel of human affection, which I prized as if it were a solid pearl, must melt in my fingers and slip thence like a dissolving hailstone. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- A man's life being to be taken and the price of it got, the hailstones to arrest the purpose must lie larger and deeper than those. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
Editor: Val