hail
US /hel/
・UK /heɪl/
B2
verb
- To speak of something with admiration/excitement
- To call out to (taxi) to get it to pick you up
- To fly, fall together through the air
- Used to say that hail is falling
noun
- Small hard pieces of ice from rain storms
other
- Frozen rain falling in the form of irregular pellets or balls of ice.
other
- (of frozen rain) fall as hail.
Examples
The hail melted once the sun came out.
Hail fell shortly after lunch.