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hailstone|ˈheɪlstəʊn|
[f. hail n.1 + stone n. OE. haᵹolstán, ON. haglsteinn, MHG. hagelstein, MLG. hagelstên, Du. hagelsteen, Yorksh. dial. haggle-steean.]
A pellet of hail.
c1000ælfric Hom. I. 52 Orsorh betwux ðam greatum haᵹolstanum. 13..Coer de L. 2190 The bowmen..shot quarelles and eke stone, As thick as the hail-stone. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) IV. 69 Þere fel so grete reyn i⁓medled wiþ hailstones [v.r. hawelstones]. 1563W. Fulke Meteors iv. (1640) 54 b, When the hayle-stones are square, or three-cornerd, the hayle was generated neere the earth. 1646J. Hall Poems 1 Pamphlets thus like hailstons fly About mine eares. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) I. 375 At Hertfordshire, in the year 1697..The hail-stones..being measured, were found to be many of them fourteen inches round. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. iii. 31 Each hailstone being a frozen cone with a rounded end. 1892M. C. F. Morris Yorksh. Folk-t. 319 In the East Riding..hailstones are in some places called ‘haggle-steeans’. |