Strinkle vs Strew - What's the difference?
strinkle | strew |
(rare) to sprinkle or scatter
To distribute objects or pieces of something over an area, especially in a random manner.
* , Romeo and Juliet , act 5, sc. 3:
* Dryden
* Beaconsfield
To cover, or lie upon, by having been scattered.
* Spenser
* Alexander Pope
To spread abroad; to disseminate.
* Shakespeare
As verbs the difference between strinkle and strew
is that strinkle is to sprinkle or scatter while strew is to distribute objects or pieces of something over an area, especially in a random manner.strinkle
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Verb
(strinkl)References
(strinkling of crumbs), [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=F0cRAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA354&dq=%22strinkled%22&hl=en&ei=Vr0pTJX3KYSClAep2ZTuAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CDsQ6AEwBQv=onepage&q=%22strinkled%22&f=false] (snow-water, strinkled upon some oatmeal), [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=L7IhAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA319&dq=%22strinkled%22&hl=en&ei=hr0pTPjGIIP7lwf1j9mwAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAzgK#v=onepage&q=%22strinkled%22&f=false (strinkled a circle of flowers)
strew
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Alternative forms
* (l) * (l) (dialectal)Verb
- to strew sand over a floor
- Sweet flower, with flowers thy bridal bed I strew .
- And strewed his mangled limbs about the field.
- On a principal table a desk was open and many papers strewn about.
- Leaves strewed the ground.
- The snow which does the top of Pindus strew .
- Is thine alone the seed that strews the plain?
- She may strew dangerous conjectures.
