Definitions for sleet

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IPA: /slit/

Sleet is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 53 anagrams from letters in sleet (eelst).

Definitions for sleet

noun

1. precipitation in the form of ice pellets created by the freezing of rain as it falls (distinguished from hail2. ).
2. glaze (def 17).
3. Chiefly British. a mixture of rain and snow.

verb (used without object)

1. to send down sleet.
2. to fall as or like sleet.

Origin of sleet

1250-1300; (noun) Middle English slete; akin to Low German slote, German Schlossen hail; (v.) Middle English sleten, derivative of the noun

Examples for sleet

In the past 63 years—through rain, sleet, snow, and bone-chilling cold—there have been 15 inaugural parades.

“Rain, sleet, snow, shark, alien invasions, whatever,” Dobles says.

sleet an' rain minglin', an' porridge ice slammin' ont' shore!

sleet is rain mixed with snow; there are pellet like snowflakes that fall between warming and cooling fronts.

A gust of wind and sleet rushed through the opening and stung their faces.

The weather had been stormy, with frequent showers of sleet and snow.

Later, men soaked in sleet walked along the Garden Ring, oblivious to the weather and glowing with happy smiles.

But in spite of snow and sleet we filled our days to the brim.

Failure to act could do what rain, sleet, and snow have failed to do--stop the delivery of the mail.

Then the sleet came pouring down and shut everything from sight.