The Collaborative International Dictionary
                    Hail-fellow
                    
                        
                
                                                                    Hail-fellow \Hail"-fel`low\ (-f[e^]l`l[-o]), n. An intimate companion.
Hail-fellow well met.                    
--Lyly.
Wiktionary
                    hail-fellow
                    
                        
                
                                                                    n. An intimate companion.
WordNet
                    hail-fellow
                    
                        
                
                                                                    adj. heartily friendly and congenial [syn: comradely, hail-fellow-well-met]
Usage examples of "hail-fellow".
The point is that you must needs advertise the world that you and the Syndic, who has charge of the walls, are hail-fellows, and the world will ask why!