Obs. Forms: α. 3 strenncle, strenkil, 5 strenkyl(le, 5–6 strencle, 6 strenkyll; β. 5 strynkylle, 6 strynkyll, strincle, strinkle; γ. 6 stryngel. [Related to STRINKLE v.] A holy-water sprinkler, an aspergillum.
α. c. 1200. Ormin, 1095. Þatt blod tatt he þær haffde brohht, & warrp itt tær wiþþ strenncless. Ibid., 1707.
a. 1300. E. E. Psalter l. 8. Þou sal strenkil me ouer-alle With strenkil, and klensed be I salle.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 223/1. Haly water spryngelle, or strencle … aspersorium. Ibid., 479/2. Strenkyl, halywater styk, aspersorium, isopus.
1530. Palsgr., 277/1. Strenkyll to cast holy water, uimpilon.
1584. in J. Morris, Troubles Cath. Forefathers (1877), 270. Certain Mass books, pictures, holy water with strencles.
β. c. 1425. Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 648/25. Hoc aspersorium, strynkylle.
1520. in J. Croft, Excerpta Ant. (1797), 13. Item, paid for ij Strynkylls.
1533. in Kal. & Inv. Exch. (1836), II. 270. Item a holly waterstocke … crownyd wt a strincle and a small cheyne of golde.
1559. Morwyng, Evonym., 108. If part of this water … be … thrown into thair with a strinkle, it will make a great cloude.
γ. 1514. in E. Law, Hampton Crt. Pal. (1885), 343. An holy waterstok of laton with a stryngel of laton.
