单词 | to give the hail |
释义 | > as lemmasto give the hail 1. originally. (At hand-ball, etc.) The act of saluting the dool or goal with the exclamation ‘hail!’, when it is hit by the ball; hence, the act of hailing or driving the ball to the dool or goal; a ‘goal’ or victory in one game or round. In phrases, to give the hail, to win a hail or so many hails. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > characteristics of team ball games > [noun] > scoring goala1640 haila1646 penalty goal1890 own goal1922 tip-in1958 a1646 D. Wedderburn Vocabula (1685) 37 Transmittere metam pila, to give the hail. Hic primus est transmissus, this is the first hail. 1804 W. Tarras Poems 66 The hails is wun. 1862 J. F. Campbell tr. in Pop. Tales W. Highlands III. lviii. 1 They went to play shinny, and Iain won three hales. < as lemmas |
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