HAIL
NOUNS
► BLATTER a hailstorm → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► BLOUT the bursting of a storm; a sudden fall of rain, snow, or hail, with wind → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► FALLING a downfall of snow, rain, or hail; a snowstorm; generally in plural → 1892 Eng. dial.
► GRAILING a slight fall of hail, which barely covers the ground → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► GRAUPEL soft hail or snow pellets → German
► HAGGLE ► HAGGLE-STONE hail; a hailstone → 1887 Eng. dial.
► HAG-STONE hail; a hailstone → 1887 Eng. dial.
► HAIL PUCKLE a hailstone → 1931 Sc.
► HAILY-BUCKIE a hailstone → 1956 Sc.
► LAMB-BLASTS passing showers of snow, rain, or hail accompanied by high wind, occurring about the time of young lambs → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► LAMB-SHOWERS passing showers of snow, rain, or hail accompanied by high wind, occurring about the time of young lambs → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► LAMB-STORMS passing showers of snow, rain, or hail accompanied by high wind, occurring about the time of young lambs → 1790 Eng. dial.
► NORTHERN NANNY a cold storm of hail and wind from the north → 1889 Eng. dial.
► THUNDER a hailstorm → 1870 Sc.
► WEATHER FALL a period of rain, snow, hail, or heavy fog → 1965 Amer. dial.
VERBS
► BLATTER to beat on with force and noise like hail → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► DEGRANDINATE to hail much → 1623 obs.
► HAGGLE to hail → 1691 Eng. dial.
► HAIL OUT to be ruined by a hailstorm → 1978 Amer. dial.
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