Sleet Definition

slēt
sleeted, sleeting, sleets
noun
Transparent or translucent precipitation in the form of pellets of ice that are smaller than 5 mm (.2 in)
Webster's New World
Partly frozen rain, or rain that freezes as it falls.
Webster's New World
The icy coating formed when rain freezes on trees, streets, etc.
Webster's New World

(firearms) Part of a mortar extending from the chamber to the trunnions.

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Synonyms:
verb
To shower in the form of sleet.
Webster's New World
(impersonal, of the weather) To be in a state in which sleet is falling.
I won't bother going out until it's stopped sleeting.
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Origin of Sleet

  • From Middle English, from a Germanic language. Skeat, the author of Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, suggests Old Norse slydda (whence Danish slud). The term is akin to dialectal German Schloße (“large hailstone").

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English slete probably from Old English slēte German Schlosse hail

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Sleet Sentence Examples

  • 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.

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