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haillike

haillike adjective: resembling or characteristic of hail (the weather phenomenon).

Adjective

haillike (comparative more haillike, superlative most haillike)

  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.1908, Eric Parker, Highways and byways in Surrey

Forms of haillike

comparativemore haillike
superlativemost haillike

Origin of haillike

From hail + -like.

Questions about haillike

What does haillike mean?
Haillike means resembling or characteristic of hail (the weather phenomenon).
What part of speech is haillike?
Haillike is an adjective.

Words near haillike in the dictionary

  1. hailing
  2. hailing down
  3. hailing from
  4. hailings
  5. haill
  6. haillike
  7. Hailokhong
  8. hailproof
  9. hails
  10. hails down
  11. hails from

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