单词 | hailshower |
释义 | > as lemmashail-shower a. With a and plural. A shower or storm of hail; now usually hail-storm, hail-shower. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > hail > [noun] hailc888 the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > hail > [noun] > shower hailc888 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. hail-shower attributive and in other combinations, as hail-shower; hail-like, hail-stricken adjs. Also hail-shot n., hailstone n., hailstorm n. ΚΠ OE Andreas (1932) 1257 Weder coledon heardum hægelscurum, swylce hrim ond forst, hare hildstapan, hæleða eðel lucon, leoda gesetu. 1399 W. Langland Richard Redeles i. 26 That neuere had harnesse, ne hayle schouris. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 388 With an haile-like storme of stones Kild him. 1839 C. Darwin in R. Fitzroy & C. Darwin Narr. Surv. Voy. H.M.S. Adventure & Beagle III. vi. 134 Having finished our dinner of hail-stricken meat. < as lemmas |
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