Word Finder - sleet

definition

Pellets of ice made of mostly frozen raindrops or refrozen melted snowflakes.

synonyms

• ice pellets

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A mixture of rain and snow.

synonyms

• slush

definition

A smooth coating of ice formed on ground or other objects by freezing rain.

synonyms

• black ice
• glaze

definition

Part of a mortar extending from the chamber to the trunnions.

definition

(of the weather) To be in a state in which sleet is falling.

example

I won't bother going out until it's stopped sleeting.

The water falls back to the earth as rain, snow, sleet, or hail.

They protect literature from rain, sleet and snow.

There was no horizontal sleet, just lots of sunshine !

Snow and/or sleet reported on 9 days - previous October highest value 6 days in 1993.

The summer is the rainy season, but in the higher country snow and sleet are not uncommon in the winter months of May, June and July.

She will not suffer from the wind or cold and falling sleet!

Today the weather is very cold and squally, occasionally had hail then sleet.

In the afternoon there were heavier showers including sleet across Anglesey 's higher ground around 1410 GMT.

There was very limited running on Friday due to the cold conditions combined with intermittent sleet showers.

Imagine our delight to step out into a howling sleet storm !

Riding in driving sleet is, however, no fun at all.

She will not suffer from the wind or cold and falling sleet !

Scotland will be partly cloudy with some isolated showers, which may turn to sleet on high grounds.

Slight sleet and snow during the morning when I went to school.

The first element, water, is created when the heavens (skies) release moisture and it falls to the earth in the form of rain, sleet, hail, and snow.

The boy stood for twelve hours in the wind, and sleet, and mud, rejoicing in the conflagration which thus liberated him.

Structural illusions are caused by the effects of heat waves, rain, snow, sleet, or other visual obscurants.

But at least we haven't had the sleet and freezing winds we were used to in Neilston, Scotland!

To say nothing of the times we brought unseasonal sleet to midsummer Norway and the monsoon to Cheshire.

In the afternoon there were heavier showers including sleet across Anglesey's higher ground around 1410 GMT.

There was no horizontal sleet, just lots of sunshine!

Socialist Party members were not put off by savage dogs and heavy sleet and snow!

Facing the cold vicious winds the blinding sleet, Walking and stumbling on blistered feet.

But at least we have n't had the sleet and freezing winds we were used to in Neilston, Scotland !

Socialist Party members were not put off by savage dogs and heavy sleet and snow !