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hail

Best crossword clue

"Frozen pellets from clouds"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /heɪl/Part of speech verb, nounSorted ahilStarts with HEnds with L5 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. Frozen rain pellets, or a call of greeting or praise.

Word origin

From Middle English heil (“healthy, sound”), from Old Norse heill, from Proto-Germanic *hailaz (“whole, entire, healthy”). The verb is from Middle English heilen, itself from the adjective. Doublet of whole, hale, and heil.

Used in a sentence

  • They say it's going to hail tomorrow.
  • The cloud would hail down furiously within a few minutes.
  • […] Farewel happy Fields / Where Joy for ever dwells: Hail horrours, hail / Infernal world, and thou profoundeſt Hell / Receive they new Poſſeſſor: […]

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Used as a crossword answer5 curated clues

01Frozen pellets from clouds4 letters
02Frozen rain pellets4 letters
03Icy pellets from clouds4 letters
04Icy weather pellets4 letters
05Frozen rain4 letters

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