hailstone
hayl stohn
- n small pellet of ice that falls during a hailstorm
- The life story of songwriter Stephin Merritt can be told in three anecdotes: 1) A few years ago, Merritt was getting out of a cab when he was struck on the head by a hailstone the .
- Words drop on Novelist Moore's pages with the errant grace and purity of snowflakes, and occasionally an epigrammatic hailstone comes rattling down on the author's adopted .
- But not a hailstone fell near them.