strale

See also: stråle

English

Etymology

From Middle English stral, from Old English strǣl (“arrow”). More at streal.

Noun

strale (plural strales)

1. Arrow.
2. (Britain, dialectal) The pupil of the eye.

Related terms

• streal

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for strale in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

• Salter, Slater, alerts, alters, artels, estral, laster, laters, ratels, resalt, salter, slater, staler, streal, talers, tarsel, tralse

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Dutch

Pronunciation

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Verb

strale

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of stralen

Anagrams

• laster

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Italian

Etymology

From Middle High German strāle (“arrow, beam”), from Old High German strāla, from Proto-Germanic *strēlō (“arrow, beam, ray, shaft”). More at streal.

Noun

strale m (plural strali)

1. (literary) arrow, thunderbolt
2. A type of racing dinghy for two people

Anagrams

• lastre, starle

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Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch strāla, from Proto-Germanic *strēlō (“arrow, ray, beam”).

Noun

strâle f

1. arrow
2. stinger (of an insect)
3. point of a weapon
4. (rare) ray, beam

Inflection

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Alternative forms

• strâel

Derived terms

• strâlen

Descendants

• Dutch: straal
  • Afrikaans: straal
• Limburgish: straol

Further reading

• “strael”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “strael”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929