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SLEET
sleet
(noun) partially melted snow (or a mixture of rain and snow)
sleet
(verb) precipitate as a mixture of rain and snow; “If the temperature rises above freezing, it will probably sleet”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
sleet (countable and uncountable, plural sleets)
(chiefly, United States) Pellets of ice made of mostly frozen raindrops or refrozen melted snowflakes.
Synonym: ice pellets
(chiefly, UK, Ireland, New England) A mixture of rain and snow.
Synonym: slush
(rare) A smooth coating of ice formed on ground or other objects by freezing rain.
Synonyms: black ice, glaze
(firearms) Part of a mortar extending from the chamber to the trunnions.
Verb
sleet (third-person singular simple present sleets, present participle sleeting, simple past and past participle sleeted)
(impersonal, of the weather) To be in a state in which sleet is falling.
Anagrams
• Leets, Steel, Teels, Teles, Ts'e-le, leets, steel, stele, stelè, stĂ©lĂ©, teles
Source: Wiktionary
Sleet, n. (Gun.)
Definition: The part of a mortar extending from the chamber to the trunnions.
Sleet, n. Etym: [OE. sleet; akin to MHG. sl, sl hailstone, G. schlosse; of uncertain origin.]
Definition: Hail or snow, mingled with rain, usually falling, or driven by the wind, in fine particles.
Sleet, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sleeted; p. pr. & vb. n. Sleeting.]
Definition: To snow or hail with a mixture of rain.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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