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; to saunter or be drawn along, carelessly, swaying in a kind of zigzag motion.

Etymologies

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From Irish straoille ("untidy person").

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Compare stroll.

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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.

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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

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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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  • 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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  • To trail along; to saunter or be drawn along carelessly. (Irish)

    July 8, 2008

  • "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