Haillike

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Resembling or characteristic of hail (the weather phenomenon).

    "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."

Example

More examples

"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."

Etymology

From hail + -like.

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