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Slete, Sleit, n. Also: sleytt. [ME slete (c1300), slet (Chaucer), e.m.E. slyte (1553-4), sleet (1635), prob. repr. OE (Anglian) *slét (< sléatj-), related to MLG slôte (LG slôte, slâte) hail. Cf. Norw. dial. sletta, Dan. slud, Icel. slydda sleet.] Sleet. a1400 Leg. S. xlix 84.
Fel done Slete & snaw
a1500 Henr. Fab. 1698.
Birdis … neir slane with snaw and sleit
a1500 Henr. Fab. 1835.
Slonkis … maid slidderie with the sleit
1513 Doug. vii Prol. 50.
Scharpe soppys of sleit
1528 Lynd. Dreme 61.
The snaw and sleit … flemit Flora frome euery bank and bus
1528 Lynd. Dreme 95.
Thy [sc. Aurora's] syluer droppis ar turnit in to sleit
1531 Bell. Boece I 139.
Continual schouris of rane and sleit
1531 Bell. Boece I 259.
Ane scharp schoure, sa full of haill and sleit
1533 Bell. Livy I 236/3.
Fell sa hevy tempest with slete and snawis out of the are, that he was empeschet
1570 Sat. P. xv 16.
Schouris Of hailstaines, snaw, and sleit
a1595 Cullen Chron. Aberd. 43.
The fyrst day of May … was say ewill … with gryt schowiris of snaw and sleytt
1615 Chron. Perth 16.
The Vatter of Tay be veittis and sleit vaxit so great that [etc.]

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