neal

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See also: Neal and néal

English

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See anneal.

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neal (third-person singular simple present neals, present participle nealing, simple past and past participle nealed)

  1. (transitive) To temper by heat.
  2. (intransitive) To be tempered by heat.
    • 1684, Robert Boyle, Essay on the Porousness of Solid Bodies:
      We laid this Glass [] warily upon a few Quick-coals, and having suffered it to neal awhile

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Galician

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Etymology

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From Latin *nīdālis, nīdālem, from nīdus +‎ -ālis.

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neal m (plural neais)

  1. nest

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Yola

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Etymology

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From Middle English nelde, metathesis of nedle, from Old English nǣdl, from Proto-West Germanic *nāþlu.

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neal

  1. needle

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  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 58