hail
/heɪl/ verb C2- To greet; give salutation to; salute.
- To name; to designate; to call. · He was hailed as a hero.
- To call out loudly in order to gain the attention of. · Hail a taxi.
- To signal in order to initiate communication with.
- In the game of uppies and downies, to throw (the ball) repeatedly up and down at the goal location, in order to score a point.
- to originate (from), be native (to) or be based (in)
He/she/it hails · Past hailed · Past participle hailed · -ing form hailing
Verb forms
- Base form
- hail
- He/she/it
- hails
- Past
- hailed
- Past participle
- hailed
- -ing form
- hailing
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Oppress not the cubs of the stranger, but hail them as Sister and Brother, For though they are little and fubsy, it may be the Bear is their mother.
“Why,” said Dantès, “if in two or three days you hail any fishing-boat, desire them to come here to me.
In the first, blazed piles of golden coin; in the second, were ranged bars of unpolished gold, which possessed nothing attractive save their value; in the third, Edmond grasped handfuls of diamonds, pearls, and rubies, which, as they fell on one another, sounded like hail against glass.
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