Call for some pieces of ice (4)
I believe the answer is:
hail
'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.
Can you help me to learn more?
(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" .)