Definition of "hailstorm" []

• A storm with hail. (noun)

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• "* Extreme weather videos in hailstorm and tornado flavors."
• "The Oriental hailstorm is a terrific agent; the hailstones are masses of ice, large as walnuts, and sometimes as two fists; their prodigious size, and the violence with which they fall, make them always very injurious to property, and often fatal to life."
• "A last-term hailstorm and generally miserable conditions didn't worry Tuck or his teammates as they turned a 19-point deficit at the long interval into a rousing 20-point victory."