strummel

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɹʌməl/
• Rhymes: -ʌməl

strummel (uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling of strommel (“straw”).
   • c. 1641–42, Richard Brome, A Jovial Crew‎^[1], act 2:

     Their Work is done already: / The Bratling's born, the Doxey's in the Strummel / Laid by an Autum Mort of their own Crew, / That serv'd for Mid-wife

2. Alternative spelling of strommel (“hair”).
   • 1834, William Harrison Ainsworth, Rookwood‎^[2], volume 2, Jerry Juniper's Chaunt, page 345:

     And ne'er was there seen such a dashing prig, / With my strummel faked in the newest twig.

   • 1846, George William MacArthur Reynolds, The Mysteries of London, volume 2, page 140:

     But the life that I love is in Swell-street to shine, / With a Mounseer-fak'd calp, and my strummel all fine, […]

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:strommel.

• tummlers

• strummle

From strammel.

strummel (uncountable)

1. The fragments of unsmoked tobacco and ash left in the bowl of a pipe.

• strummle ends (“fragments of tobacco”)

• “strummel”, 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.