noun
hailstone
HAYL-stohn/ˈheɪlstəʊn/
A small ball or lump of ice that falls during a storm.
A hailstone bounces off the sidewalk during the storm.
Etymology
Hail combined with stone pictures a falling ice pellet as a little rock. The compound singles out one solid piece of the frozen rain.
In context
more ice um um forms and then it goes down a little bit and maybe it melts um and the the the hailstone bounces up and down in the cloud. But eventually it it lands to earth.
More examples
- Large hailstones dented the hood of our car.
- She holds a melting hailstone in her palm.
- We hear hailstones striking the roof.
Forms
hailstone · hailstones
hail noun — Frozen precipitation falling as balls of ice.
Similar words
- hail
- Names the frozen precipitation collectively, not one individual piece.