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neal

verbcommon in dialogue

  • //niːl//

To temper by heat.

verb

  1. 1

    To temper by heat.

  2. 2

    To be tempered by heat.

    We laid this Glass[…]warily upon a few Quick-coals, and having suffered it to neal awhile

Etymology

See anneal.

Forms

past tense
nealed
past participle
nealed
present participle
nealing
third person singular
neals
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).