| 单词 | sleet-flake |
| 释义 | > as lemmassleet-flake 2. attributive, as sleet air, sleet blast, sleet-flake, sleet-gust, sleet-shower, sleet storm, etc.; sleet-bound adj. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > snow > [adjective] > characterized by sleet > beaten upon or covered by > covered or blocked by sleet-bound1782 the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > snow > [noun] > sleet > shower or storm of sleet sleet1728 sleet-gust1928 1782 J. Trumbull MʽFingal (new ed.) iii. 65 He glitter'd to the western ray Like sleet-bound trees in wintry skies. 1832 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae lx, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 259 The Wellington Arms is by no means an uncomfortable howf in a sleet-squash. 1866 E. P. Whipple Character & Characteristic Men 34 The sharp sleet air is invigorating. 1877 Daily News 27 Dec. 6/1 The Russians are there, out in the sleet blasts. 1888 J. A. Lees & W. J. Clutterbuck B.C. 1887: Ramble in Brit. Columbia (1892) xxiv. 266 The cold dark clouds..burst upon us in a furious sleet storm. 1888 J. A. Lees & W. J. Clutterbuck B.C. 1887: Ramble in Brit. Columbia xxix. 327 In a blinding sleet-shower. 1928 E. Blunden Retreat 48 Where the lashed sleet-gust foams, buffeting and blinding. 1929 C. Day Lewis Transitional Poem ii. 34 When bullying April bruised mine eyes With sleet-bound appetites and crude Experiments of green. < as lemmas |
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