seal - What does it mean?
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'seal' is a common misspelling of 'seel'
The correct spelling of 'seel' ends with the letters 'el'.
This incorrect spelling 'seal' ends with the letters 'al'.
'seal' Spelling Rule
The endings '-el' and '-al' are often confused. The ending of 'seel' instead of 'seal' has been determined by a mixture of which language the root word originated from (French, German, Latin, Greek, etc). The -al endings generally correspond to Latin.
Definition of 'seel' not 'seal'English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .
Adjective
( en-adj)
(obsolete) Good; fortunate; opportune; happy.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) . More at (l).
Alternative forms
* (l)
Noun
( en-noun)
(UK|dialectal) Good fortune; happiness; bliss.
(UK|dialectal) Opportunity; time; season.
- the seel of the day
Derived terms
* (l)
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Etymology 3
From (etyl) (m), .
Verb
( en-verb)
(falconry) To sew together the eyes of a young hawk.
* J. Reading
- Fond hopes, like seeled doves for want of better light, mount till they end their flight with falling.
(by extension) To blind.
Etymology 4
Compare (etyl) , and (etyl) (m) (transitive verb).
Verb
( en-verb)
(intransitive|obsolete|of a ship) To roll on the waves in a storm.
* Samuel Pepys
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- (Sir Walter Raleigh)
Noun
( en-noun)
The rolling or agitation of a ship in a storm.
- (Sandys)
Anagrams
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English words similar to 'seal':skill, sol, sill, soil, sell, swell, sal, shall, sail, soul, skull, scull, seal, shill, sial, scowl, shell, shul, shoal, shawl, swill, skell, saul, sull, skol, shiel, skoal, seel, skil, skool, skall, sowl, scall, sweal, skeel, skail, sewel, sheal, soal, shool, shail, swoll
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