hail / hale

To greet or frozen rain versus healthy, or to haul into court.

To hail is to greet or to come from: hail a cab, she hails from Ohio. Hail is also frozen rain. Hale means healthy: hale and hearty. To hale is to haul, usually into court: haled into court. Do not write hale a cab.

Examples

UseHail a cab.

UseShe is hale at ninety.

UseHe was haled into court.

AvoidHale a cab.