Idioms for hail
within hail,
within range of hearing; audible: The mother kept her children within hail of her voice.
Origin of hail
1OTHER WORDS FROM hail
hail·er, nounWords nearby hail
haik,
haikai,
haikou,
haiku,
haikwan tael,
hail,
hail columbia,
hail from,
hail mary,
hail-fellow,
hail-fellow-well-met
Definition for hail (2 of 2)
hail
2
[ heyl ]
/ heɪl /
noun
showery precipitation in the form of irregular pellets or balls of ice more than 1/5 (0.2) inch (5 mm) in diameter, falling from a cumulonimbus cloud (distinguished from sleet).
a shower or storm of such precipitation.
a shower of anything: a hail of bullets.
verb (used without object)
to pour down hail (often used impersonally with it as subject): It hailed this afternoon.
to fall or shower as hail: Arrows hailed down on the troops as they advanced.
verb (used with object)
to pour down on as or like hail: The plane hailed leaflets on the city.
Origin of hail
2
before 900; Middle English; Old English
hægl, variant of
hagol; cognate with German
Hagel, Old Norse
hagl
Example sentences from the Web for hail
British Dictionary definitions for hail (1 of 2)
hail
1
/ (heɪl) /
noun
small pellets of ice falling from cumulonimbus clouds when there are very strong rising air currents
a shower or storm of such pellets
words, ideas, etc, directed with force and in great quantity
a hail of abuse
a collection of objects, esp bullets, spears, etc, directed at someone with violent force
verb
(intr; with it as subject)
to be the case that hail is falling
(often with it as subject)
to fall or cause to fall as or like hail
to hail criticism; bad language hailed about him
Word Origin for hail
Old English
hægl; related to Old Frisian
heil, Old High German
hagal hail, Greek
kakhlēx pebble
British Dictionary definitions for hail (2 of 2)
hail
2
/ (heɪl) /
verb (mainly tr)
noun
sentence substitute
poetic
an exclamation of greeting
Derived forms of hail
hailer, nounWord Origin for hail
C12: from Old Norse
heill
whole; see
hale
1,
wassail
Scientific definitions for hail
hail
[ hāl ]
Precipitation in the form of rounded pellets of ice and hard snow that usually falls during thunderstorms. Hail forms when raindrops are blown up and down within a cloud, passing repeatedly through layers of warm and freezing air and collecting layers of ice until they are too heavy for the winds to keep them from falling.
Cultural definitions for hail
hail
Pellets of ice that form when updrafts in thunderstorms carry raindrops to high altitudes, where the water freezes and then falls back to Earth. Hailstones as large as baseballs have been recorded. Hail can damage crops and property.
Idioms and Phrases with hail
hail