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Also, within hail . Near enough to hear a summons, as in Tommy's allowed to play outside but only within call of his mother , or We told them they could hike ahead of us but to stay within hail . The first term was first recorded in 1668, the variant in 1697.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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