hail
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Is hail a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
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What is the meaning of hail?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (meteorology, uncountable) Balls or pieces of ice falling as precipitation, often in connection with a thunderstorm.uncountable
2. (meteorology, countable) An occurrence of this type of precipitation; a hailstorm.countable
3. (countable, by extension) A rapid, intense barrage by a large number of projectiles or other objects.Examples: "Their lack of good intelligence also meant that they vastly overestimated the size of their foes for far too long, hails of armor-piercing shells doing comparatively little damage compared to the high explosive that they should have been using."broadlycountable
verb (English)
1. (impersonal) To have hailstones fall from the sky.Examples: "They say it's going to hail tomorrow."impersonal
2. (intransitive) To send or release hail.Examples: "The cloud would hail down furiously within a few minutes."intransitive
adj (English)
1. (obsolete) Healthy, whole, safe.obsolete
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To greet; give salutation to; salute.Examples: "[…] Farewel happy Fields / Where Joy for ever dwells: Hail horrours, hail / Infernal world, and thou profoundeſt Hell / Receive they new Poſſeſſor: […]"transitive
2. (transitive) To name; to designate; to call.Examples: "Such a Son as all men hail'd me happy;"; "He was hailed as a hero."transitive
3. (transitive) To call out loudly in order to gain the attention of.Examples: "Hail a taxi."; "'Cause I've got one hand in my pocket / And the other one is hailin' a taxi cab"transitive
4. (transitive) To call out loudly in order to gain the attention of.Examples: "In Melbourne, you would usually have to hail a tram when you are travelling late at night and there are no other passengers waiting at your stop."AustraliaUKbroadlytransitive
5. (transitive) To signal in order to initiate communication with.transitive
6. (transitive) In the game of uppies and downies, to throw (the ball) repeatedly up and down at the goal location, in order to score a point.transitive
intj (English)
1. (archaic or poetic) An exclamation of respectful or reverent salutation, or, occasionally, of familiar greeting.Examples: "Hail, brave friend."archaicpoetic
Definition source: Wiktionary