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单词 hailing
释义 hailing, vbl. n.|ˈheɪlɪŋ|
[f. hail v.2 + -ing1.]
The action of the verb hail2; greeting, salutation; calling out to attract attention.
c1205Lay. 14442 He com to þan kinge, mid are hailinge.c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 351 Heiling..haþ noo vertue among þes freris: for þei saluten ofte fendis.1548Udall Erasm. Par. Luke xx. 163 The vanishyng smoke of haillynges and gretinges.1699W. Dampier Voy. II. i. 157 Ready to fire on us, if we had gone abroad without haling.1724R. Falconer Voy. (1769) 13 The other Ship came up to us, and, without hailing, pour'd a Broad-side into the Pyrate.
b. attrib., as hailing-distance; hailing-bough, one hung up in a house to ‘hail’ May morning.
1821Clare Vill. Minstr. I. 11 And dear to him the rural sports of May, When each cot-threshold mounts its hailing bough.1840R. H. Dana Bef. Mast ii. 4 They passed to leeward of us, and out of hailing distance.
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