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, stélé, 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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