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English
Etymology
From hail + -y.
Adjective
haily (comparative more haily, superlative most haily)
- Containing hail; involving hail falling.
c. 1699 – 1703, Alexander Pope, “The First Book of Statius His Thebais”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume I, London: W Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, , published 1717, →OCLC:[T]he rolling clouds; / From whose dark womb a rattling tempest pours, / Which the cold north congeals to haily showers.
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