Sleet: Definition and part of speech

Sleet

  1. n. Hail or snow, mingled with rain, usually falling, or driven by the wind, in fine particles.
  2. n. The part of a mortar extending from the chamber to the trunnions.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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