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).[1] The term is akin to dialectal German Schloße (“large hailstone”).

• IPA^(key): /sliːt/
• Rhymes: -iːt

sleet (countable and uncountable, plural sleets)

1. (chiefly Britain, Ireland, New England) A mixture of rain and snow.

   Synonyms: slush, ice pellets

2. Rain which freezes before reaching the ground.
3. (firearms) Part of a mortar extending from the chamber to the trunnions.

• snow
• freezing rain
• graupel

sleet (third-person singular simple present sleets, present participle sleeting, simple past and past participle sleeted)

1. (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.

• sleet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Sleet in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
• AMS Glossary of Meteorology

• Leets, Steel, Teels, Teles, leets, steel, stele, stelè, stélé, teles

• IPA^(key): /sleːt/

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sleet ? (uncountable)

1. wear

• slijtage

sleet

1. singular past indicative of slijten
2. second- and third-person singular present indicative of sleeën
3. (archaic) plural imperative of sleeën

• leest, slete, steel, stele