hailstonen.
/ˈheɪlstəʊn/, U.S. /ˈheɪlˌstoʊn/ A pellet of hail.
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c1000 Ælfric Homilies I. 52 Orsorh betwux ðam greatum hagolstanum.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1872) IV. 69 Þere fel so grete reyn i~medled wiþ hailstones [v.r. hawelstones].
a1400 Coer de L. 2190 The bowmen..shot quarelles and eke stone, As thick as the hail-stone.
1563 W. Fulke Goodle Gallerye Causes Meteors iv. f. 54v When the hayle stones are square, or thre cornerd, the hayle was generated neare the earth.
1647 J. Hall Poems i. 1 Pamphlets thus like hailstons fly About mine eares.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth I. 375 At Hertfordshire, in the year 1697..The hail-stones..being measured, were found to be many of them fourteen inches round.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. iii. 31 Each hailstone being a frozen cone with a rounded end.
1892 M. C. F. Morris Yorks. Folk-talk 319 In the East Riding..hailstones are in some places called ‘haggle-steeans’.
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