sleet
/sliːt/ · noun
Meaning
- Pellets of ice made of mostly frozen raindrops or refrozen melted snowflakes.
- A mixture of rain and snow.
- A smooth coating of ice formed on ground or other objects by freezing rain.
- Part of a mortar extending from the chamber to the trunnions.
- (of the weather) To be in a state in which sleet is falling.
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