Pār'a-grān'di-ne

[It., from parare, Fr. parer, to ward off, to parry, and grandine, hail, from Lat. grando, grandinis.] An apparatus made use of, in some parts of Europe, to protect crops from injury by hailstones. It consists of numerous metallic points and straw ropes bound together with hempen threads, and erected over the field to be protected. Buchanan.