noun
Freq #131664
Meanings
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noun
a single ball or irregular lump of ice that falls from a storm cloud as hail
A hailstone struck the greenhouse roof and cracked one of its panes.
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Etymology
From Middle English hailston and Old English hagolstan, a compound of the ancestors of hail and stone. The name compares each hard pellet of frozen precipitation to a small stone.