Obs. exc. dial. Also stramel. [Of obscure origin: cf. dial. scrammel in the same sense, also STRUMMEL.] ‘A lean, gaunt, ill-favoured person or animal’ (Miss Jackson, Shropsh. Word-bk.).
1706. E. Ward, Hud. Rediv., I. xii. 19. Strutting about on hide-bound Strammel, Mounted like Turk upon a Camel. Ibid. (1711), Quix., I. 28. When thus he had prepar’d his Stramel, Tall as an Elephant or Camel.
1879. in Miss Jackson, Shropsh. Word-bk., art. Scrammel, Shammel, A great strammel of a pig.
