Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To trail; stream.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb colloq. To trail along; to saunter or be drawn along, carelessly, swaying in a kind of zigzag motion.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A disreputable woman, a
slut . - verb colloquial To
trail along; tosaunter or be drawn along, carelessly,swaying in a kind ofzigzag motion.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The magic of roll of the steel wheel over the streel rail is still the most efficient and most environmentally safe system of frreight transport ovel long land distances.
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Cissy came up along the strand with the two twins and their ball with her hat anyhow on her to one side after her run and she did look a streel tugging the two kids along with the flimsy blouse she bought only a fortnight before like a rag on her back and a bit of her petticoat hanging like a caricature.
Ulysses 2003
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Cissy came up along the strand with the two twins and their ball with her hat anyhow on her to one side after her run and she did look a streel tugging the two kids along with the flimsy blouse she bought only
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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The future of the 398-foot long streel-truss span has been in doubt for sometime because of structural concerns.
Home 2010
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The future of the 398-foot long streel-truss span has been in doubt for sometime because of structural concerns.
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The future of the 398-foot long streel-truss span has been in doubt for sometime because of structural concerns.
Fore, right! 2010
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The historic neighborhood will be filled with Caribbean music like reggae and streel drum bands, exotic foods and family activities.
PNJ - News 2009
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T. Mr.H. T. Wright, 59, Great T.tchfield-streel, for a drawing in outline from the antique, the Silver Palette.
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Instead of being let streel round with his highty-tighty airs.”
Ultima Thule 2003
mercy commented on the word streel
To trail along; to saunter or be drawn along carelessly. (Irish)
July 8, 2008
yarb commented on the word streel
"She had earrings like chandeliers; you might have lighted 'em up, by Jove--and a yellow satin train that streeled after her like the tail of a comet."
- Thackeray, Vanity Fair, ch. 20
November 20, 2008