grandinare

grandinare [CLimpers.] , to hail. b (trans.) to damage by hail; c (fig.). d to hurl (missiles) like hail. ~are, grandinem pluere Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 262; ~at, hayles WW.  b ubi succisa vel direpta ab hostibus, vel ~ata vel incensa fulminibus fuerit vinea, rarus vindemiator apparet Ailr. Serm. 30. 490D.  c ante caput grando mala grandinet igne nefando, / ante Satan frangat collum quam me Venus angat R. Cant. Malch. III 199; dum belli seva procella / ingruit et latum grandinat orbis agrum Garl. Tri. Eccl. 1.  d inclusi ‥ moenium occupantes cacumina missilia compluunt, saxivoma fulminant, lapides ~ant Ps.-Elmh. Hen. V 62.