Streal

//stɹiːl// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Noun
  1. 1
    Beam, ray (e.g. of light). rare
  2. 2
    An arrow.
  3. 3
    Anything thrown or cast; a missile. Scotland, UK

    "With streals all wounded, with streals was I all wounded."

  4. 4
    The pupil of the eye. UK, dialectal

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"With streals all wounded, with streals was I all wounded."

Etymology

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.

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