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"hail" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often acclaim (7 letters).
Definitions
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: […]”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer5 curated clues
01“Frozen pellets from clouds”4 letters
02“Frozen rain pellets”4 letters
03“Icy pellets from clouds”4 letters
04“Icy weather pellets”4 letters
05“Frozen rain”4 letters
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