I fall from winter storms as hard, frozen pellets of ice. Swap my first letter for an 'M' and I arrive in your postbox; swap it for an 'S' and I help propel a sailboat. What am I?
Hail
The frozen precipitation is hail, composed of hard ice pellets falling during severe winter weather. Replacing the leading letter 'H' with 'M' produces 'mail', delivered to a postbox, while replacing it with 'S' yields 'sail', which catches wind on a boat. Solving this riddle requires recognizing a shared set of rhyming words ending in '-ail'.
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