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streal

/ˈstɹiːl/

streal noun: beam, ray (e.g. of light).

Noun

streal (plural streals)

  1. (rare) Beam, ray (e.g. of light).
  2. (Sussex) An arrow.
  3. (Scotland, UK) Anything thrown or cast; a missile.
    • With streals all wounded, with streals was I all wounded.1896, The Scottish Review, volume 27, page 299
  4. (UK, dialectal) The pupil of the eye.

Forms of streal

pluralstreals
alternative form (dialectal)strale
alternative form (obsolete)streale

Origin of streal

From Middle English strele, stral, from Old English strǣl (“beam, ray, arrow, shaft, dart, missile”), from Proto-West Germanic *strālu (“arrow, ray, beam”), from Proto-Indo-European *strēl- *strēlā- (“arrow, beam”). Cognate with West Frisian striel (“arrow, dart, shaft”), Dutch straal (“radius, ray, beam, stream”), German Strahl (“beam, ray, spurt”), Swedish stråle (“beam, ray”), Icelandic strjál (“arrow”), Lithuanian strėlė (“arrow, dart, jib”), Russian стрела (strela, “arrow, dart”). See also streel.

Words that rhyme with streal

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Questions about streal

What does streal mean?
Streal means beam, ray (e.g. of light).
What part of speech is streal?
Streal is a noun.
How do you pronounce streal?
Streal is pronounced /ˈstɹiːl/.
What is the plural of streal?
The plural of streal is streals.

Words near streal in the dictionary

  1. streaks of good luck
  2. streaks of piss
  3. streakwise
  4. streaky
  5. streaky bacon
  6. streal
  7. streals
  8. stream
  9. stream bed
  10. stream beds
  11. stream cable

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