sleet

sliːt

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#1·9h ago

(chiefly, United States) Pellets of ice made of mostly-frozen raindrops or refrozen melted snowflakes.

Though it never really snows it’s more like horizontal sleet

Origin: From , probably from , *slȳte, *slīete, from , from . Walter W. Skeat, the author of Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, suggests (whence ). The word appears to be akin to , dialectal , .. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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#2·9h ago

(chiefly, UK, Ireland, Northeast US) in the form of a mixture of rain and snow.

Though it never really snows it’s more like horizontal sleet

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#3·9h ago

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

Though it never really snows it’s more like horizontal sleet

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