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sleet

noun as in ice

noun as in precipitation

noun as in shower

noun as in snow

verb as in rain

verb as in shower

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Showers will be frequent in Northern Ireland along with coastal areas of England and Wales - these will probably be mixed with some rain, sleet and hail.

From BBC

In this weather set-up, one can assume we will have wintry showers coming in across Scotland and northern England with snow over mountains and maybe some sleet to lower levels.

From BBC

His reputation, for good and ill, is firmly fixed; there are plenty of voters who won’t be dissuaded — by rain, sleet, snow, a sexual-assault verdict, multiple criminal indictments — from voting for Trump come November.

In April 1917, an offensive by British and Canadian troops at the city of Arras in northern France bogged down in sleet, snow, and ankle-deep mud.

He said snow accumulation in the Antelope Valley isn’t likely, but he expected the area will get a mix of rain, snow and sleet.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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