haillike

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English

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Etymology

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From hail +‎ -like.

Adjective

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haillike (comparative more haillike, superlative most haillike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of hail (the weather phenomenon).
    • 1908, Eric Parker, Highways and byways in Surrey:
      It was a gusty, rainy day, and the rolling white and grey clouds and the lines of haillike lances rode down the sky like a charge.