streal

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English

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Etymology

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From Middle English strele, stral, from Old English strǣl (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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Noun

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streal (plural streals)

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