hailstormn.
A violent fall or storm of hail.
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1697 Philos. Trans. 1695–7 (Royal Soc.) 19 577 A Letter..giving Account of a great Hail-storm [in Herts].
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Hail The mischiefs that violent hail-storms are able to do, is scarce to be conceived.
1813 T. I. M. Forster Res. Atmosph. Phænom. App. 252 Hard hailstorms are generally accompanied with thunder and lightning.
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hail-storm
a. With a and plural. A shower or storm of hail; now usually hail-storm, hail-shower.
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c888 Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. xxxix. §13 Hæglas and snawas and se oft ræda ren leccaþ ða eorþan on wintra.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Wisd. xvi. 16 With newe watris, and hailis, and reynes, they suffreden persecucioun.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 6019 A thonor wit an haile.
c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 93 In hailes or tempestis.
a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) v. iii. 34 I am not a day of season, For thou maist see a sun-shine, and a haile In me at once. View more context for this quotation
1788 T. Jefferson Writings (1859) II. 458 A very considerable portion of this country has been desolated by a hail.
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