streal

English

Alternative forms

• strale (dialectal)

Etymology

From Middle English strele, stral, from Old English strǣl (“arrow, shaft, dart, missile”), from Proto-Germanic *strēlaz, *strēlō (“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.

Noun

streal (plural streals)

1. An arrow.
2. (UK dialectal) The pupil of the eye.

Related terms

• streel

Anagrams

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