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sleet

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–noun
1. precipitation in the form of ice pellets created by the freezing of rain as it falls (distinguished from hail ).
2. glaze (def. 17).
3. Chiefly British. a mixture of rain and snow.
–verb (used without object)
4. to send down sleet.
5. to fall as or like sleet.
Origin:
1250–1300; (n.) ME slete; akin to LG slote, G Schlossen hail; (v.) ME sleten, deriv. of the n.
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sleet   (slēt)   
n.  

  1. Precipitation consisting of generally transparent frozen or partially frozen raindrops.

  2. A mixture of rain and snow or hail.

  3. A thin icy coating that forms when rain or sleet freezes, as on trees or streets.

intr.v.   sleet·ed, sleet·ing, sleets
To shower sleet.

[Middle English slete, from Old English *slēte.]
sleet'y adj.
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Word Origin & History

sleet 
c.1300, slete, either from an unrecorded O.E. word or via M.H.G. sloz, M.L.G. sloten (pl.) "hail," from P.Gmc. *slautjan- (cf. dial. Norw. slutr, Dan. slud, Swed. sloud "sleet"), from root *slaut-. The verb is attested from c.1325.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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