hailstone
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++hail·stone, hail stone /ˈheɪlstəʊn $ -stoʊn/ noun [countable] DNa small ball of frozen rain 雹块，雹子
Examples from the Corpus
hailstone• And in 1958, a Sussex storm delivered a 5oz hailstone, Britain's heaviest ever.• One great big hailstone, right?• I found a small but perfectly-formed hailstone on my knee, which must have got in through the air vent.• In this way, the children became spread out instead of all clustering together with the coins descending on them like hailstones.• He and Jimmy lay beneath the wagon as a barrage of hailstones beat hard on the planks above.hail·stone nounChineseSyllable
a rain ball of Corpus small frozen
hailstone
hail‧stone
, hail stone /ˈheɪlstəʊn $ -stoʊn/ noun [countable]
a small ball of frozen rain
hail‧stone
, hail stone /ˈheɪlstəʊn $ -stoʊn/ noun [countable]a small ball of frozen rain