broadside vs hail

broadside

noun
  • One side of a ship above the water line; all the guns on one side of a warship; their simultaneous firing. 

  • The printed lyrics of a folk song or ballad; a broadsheet. 

  • A forceful attack, be it written or spoken. 

  • A large sheet of paper, printed on one side and folded. 

verb
  • To collide with something side-on. 

adv
  • Sideways; with the side turned to the direction of some object. 

hail

noun
  • A rapid, intense barrage by a large number of projectiles or other objects. 

  • An occurrence of this type of precipitation; a hailstorm. 

  • Balls or pieces of ice falling as precipitation, often in connection with a thunderstorm. 

verb
  • To signal in order to initiate communication with. 

  • To send or release hail. 

  • Of hail, to fall from the sky. 

  • To name; to designate; to call. 

  • To pour down in rapid succession. 

  • To call out loudly in order to gain the attention of. 

  • To indicate, from a designated stop or otherwise, to the driver of a public transport vehicle that one wishes to board and travel on the vehicle, usually using hand signals such as waving. 

  • To greet; give salutation to; salute. 

How often have the words broadside and hail occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )