neal

See anneal.

• IPA^(key): /niːl/

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

• “neal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Alne, ELAN, Lane, Lean, Lena, Nale, elan, enal, lane, lean, nale, élan

• nial, niallo

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

• IPA^(key): /niˈal/, IPA^(key): /neˈal/

neal m (plural neais)

1. nest

• “neal” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.

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

• IPA^(key): /niːɫ/
• Homophone: niel

neal

1. needle

• 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