- precipitation in the form of ice pellets created by the freezing of rain as it falls (distinguished from hail2).
- glaze (def. 17).
- a mixture of rain and snow.
- to send down sleet.
- to fall as or like sleet.
- partly melted falling snow or hail or (esp US) partly frozen rain
- the thin coat of ice that forms when sleet or rain freezes on cold surfaces
- to fall as sleet