hail
Balls or pieces of ice falling as precipitation, often in connection with a thunderstorm.
Noun 3 meanings
Balls or pieces of ice falling as precipitation, often in connection with a thunderstorm.
An occurrence of this type of precipitation; a hailstorm.
A rapid, intense barrage by a large number of projectiles or other objects.
Verb 4 meanings
To have hailstones fall from the sky.
“They say it's going to hail tomorrow.”
To send or release hail.
“The cloud would hail down furiously within a few minutes.”
To pour down in rapid succession.
To greet; give salutation to; salute.
Etymology
From Middle English hayl, haul, from Old English hæġl, hæġel, hagol (“hail”), from Proto-West Germanic *hagl, from Proto-Germanic *haglaz, of uncertain origin. Either from Proto-Indo-European *kagʰlos (“pebble”); or alternatively from *ḱoḱló-, a reduplication of *ḱel- (“cold”).
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HAIL at a glance
HAIL has 4 letters and scores 7 points in Scrabble (H 4 + A 1 + I 1 + L 1) and 7 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #7,920 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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