neal
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
See anneal.
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
neal (third-person singular simple present neals, present participle nealing, simple past and past participle nealed)
- (transitive) To temper by heat.
- (intransitive) To be tempered by heat.
- 1684, Robert Boyle, Essay on the Porousness of Solid Bodies:
- We laid this Glass […] warily upon a few Quick-coals, and having suffered it to neal awhile
References[edit]
- “neal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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Galician[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin *nīdālis, nīdālem, from nīdus + -ālis.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
neal m (plural neais)
References[edit]
- “neal” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
Yola[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English nelde, metathesis of nedle, from Old English nǣdl, from Proto-West Germanic *nāþlu.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
neal
References[edit]
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 58
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