Definitions for hailstones

hailstones hail·stone

Spelling: [heyl-stohn]
IPA: /ˈheɪlˌstoʊn/

Hailstones is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 1121 anagrams from letters in hailstones (aehilnosst).

Definitions for hailstones

noun

  1. a pellet of hail.

Origin of hailstones

before 1000; Middle English; Old English hagolstān. See hail2, stone

Examples for hailstones

Bozeman is only three miles from here, yet not one hailstone, not one drop of rain did they get there.

The famous collection of the late Mrs. hailstone was sold in 1909.

My orderly picked up one hailstone outside and brought it in to us.

A thunder-storm came on at this moment, and such a heavy hail-storm that every hailstone weighed a pennyweight.

One of our men received a severe bruise on his head, caused by a hailstone.

This hailstone is said to have fallen upon the estate of Mr. Moffat of Ord.

From a broadside in Mr. hailstone's coll., collated with one penes me.

A deadly fear struck on Neville's heart, cold as a hailstone on an opening rose.

Fassig lists a quartz pebble, found in a hailstone (Bibliography, part 2-355).

Even as the slinger distinctly sends the stone out of his sling, so the path of every hailstone is marked by the Divine power.

Word Value for hailstones
Scrable

12

Words with friends

13

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