sleet
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English, from a Germanic language. Skeat, the author of Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, suggests Old Norse slydda (whence Danish slud).[1] The term is akin to dialectal German Schloße (“large hailstone”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
sleet (uncountable)
- (chiefly UK) A mixture of rain and snow.
- Rain which freezes before reaching the ground.
- (firearms) Part of a mortar extending from the chamber to the trunnions.
Synonyms[edit]
Translations[edit]
rain which freezes before reaching the ground
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mixture of rain and snow
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Verb[edit]
sleet (third-person singular simple present sleets, present participle sleeting, simple past and past participle sleeted)
- (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.
Translations[edit]
to be in a state in which sleet is falling
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Usage notes[edit]
- ^ Skeat (in German) considers the English word “sleet” to be a loanword from Scandinavia and cites the Norwegian word “sletta.”
References[edit]
Anagrams[edit]
External links[edit]
Sleet in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
Dutch[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
sleet ? (uncountable)
Synonyms[edit]
Verb[edit]
sleet
- singular past indicative of slijten
- second- and third-person singular present indicative of sleeën
- plural imperative of sleeën
