ALL meanings of hailing
hail
H h - verb with object hailing to pour down on as or like hail: The plane hailed leaflets on the city. 1
- verb without object hailing to pour down hail (often used impersonally with it as subject): It hailed this afternoon. 1
- verb without object hailing to fall or shower as hail: Arrows hailed down on the troops as they advanced. 1
- noun hailing showery precipitation in the form of irregular pellets or balls of ice more than 1/5 (0.2) inch (5 mm) in diameter, falling from a cumulonimbus cloud (distinguished from sleet). 1
- noun hailing a shower or storm of such precipitation. 1
- noun hailing a shower of anything: a hail of bullets. 1
- idioms hailing within hail, within range of hearing; audible: The mother kept her children within hail of her voice. 1
- noun hailing Present participle of hail. 1
- noun hailing The act by which somebody is hailed. 0