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Definition of Hailstones
1. hailstone [n] - See also: hailstone
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hailstones
Literary usage of Hailstones
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Complete Course of Meteorology by Ludwig Friedrich Kämtz, Léon Louis Chrétien Lalanne, Charles Martins (1845)
"hailstones formed of transparent ice are rain-drops, falling from clouds, brought
by south winds, which freeze in traversing cold strata of air ..."
2. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society by Royal Meteorological Society (Great Britain) (1907)
"Some of the hailstones were as large as walnuts and damsons, and they did great
damage to ... The damage done by the hailstones and the wind was very great. ..."
3. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1863)
"Notice of Remarkable hailstones which fell at Headingley, near Leeds, on the 7th
of May, 1862." By THOMAS SUT- CLIFFE, Esq., in a letter to Dr. SHARPEY, ..."
4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1863)
"... 1802, showing the force of the hailstones and the violence of the dak. By EJ
LOWE, FBAS <5fc. The hurricane about to be described was accompanied by a ..."
5. A Treatise on Meteorology: With a Collection of Meteorological Tables by Elias Loomis (1868)
"Sometimes small hailstones consist entirely of transparent ice, and these are
... The small hailstones of winter are termed sleet, to distinguish them from ..."
6. A Treatise on Meteorology: With a Collection of Meteorological Tables by Elias Loomis (1872)
"Sometimes small hailstones consist entirely of transparent ice, and these are
... The small hailstones of winter are termed sleet, to distinguish them from ..."
7. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1835)
"hailstones which fell during the storm. All his remarks are taken from the
observations he himself made on the spot to which he fled for refuge, ..."
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