strammel
English
Noun
strammel (countable and uncountable, plural strammels)
- Alternative spelling of strommel (“straw”)
- 1815, Scott, Sir Walter, chapter XXVIII, in Guy Mannering:
- Yes, ye are a' altered: you'll eat the goodman’s meat, drink his drink, sleep on the strammel in his barn, and break his house and cut his throat for his pains!
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- Alternative spelling of strommel (“hair”)
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:strommel.
Anagrams
- Lammerts, Trammels, trammels
Scots
Alternative forms
- strummel, strummle
Etymology
From English strommel, strummel, strammel (“straw”), from Old French *estramaille (“straw for bedding”), from Latin stramen (“straw for bedding”), from Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃- (“to spread”).
Noun
strammel (plural ~)
- (uncountable) Straw.
- (countable) A rag; a piece of cloth.
- (countable) The tube of a baby's bottle.
References
- “strammel” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.