strammel

English

Noun

strammel (countable and uncountable, plural strammels)

1. Alternative spelling of strommel (“straw”)
   • 1815, Sir Walter Scott, 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!

2. 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 ~)

1. (uncountable) Straw.
2. (countable) A rag; a piece of cloth.
3. (countable) The tube of a baby's bottle.

References

• “strammel”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 30 January 2017, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.