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Call for some pieces of ice (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

hail

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'ice' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'call for some pieces' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'some' could be 'a' and 'a' is present in the answer.
'call' could be 'hi' and 'hi' is found in the remaining letters.
A single letter 'l' remains which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

'of' is the link.

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(Other definitions for hail that I've seen before include "Ice pellets - greeting" , "Greet(ing) - frozen shower" , "Fall of ice" , "Falling ice pellets" , "Call, a taxi say" .)

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