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stramel, strammel, strummel noun straw: I will shake the strummel and you can make the bed. 19-. etymology: Scots; originally a Cant word strommel, strummel ‘straw’, perhaps a development from Old French estramaille ‘straw for bedding’; estramer ‘to spread with straw’; Latin stramen ‘straw’; also found in Shelta; also collected by EMcC/PS, RD and Rev John Baird from Kirk Yetholm Gypsies; attested by Galloway and Perthshire and Argyleshire Tinkler-Gypsies, BS in TDITA and DW; also collected by Simson (1865) and attested by 2 of his informants note:

Form Strommel attested in Lexicon Balatronicum (1811) and by Grose and Egan (1823) as ‘Cant’.

Forms strelum and strammel attested by Canadian Paul Pope (2013) the form strelum he defines it as ‘hay, grass, hair’ which may be a development of the above. The form strammel he defines as above.