Venery. Forms: 4 surryal, 5 surereall, sureale, surriall, 7 surroyall, surroial, 7 surroyal, sur-royal. [f. SUR- + ROYAL sb. (REAL sb.1).] An upper or terminal branch of a stags antler, above that called royal (ROYAL B. 3). Also attrib.
a. 1400. Parlt. 3 Ages, 30. The ryalls full richely raughten frome the myddes With surryals full semely appon sydes twayne.
c. 1410. Master of Game (MS. Digby 182), xxiv. Auntelere and ryall and surereall. Ibid., xxxiii. Bitwene þe sureale and þe fourche or troche.
1576. Turbervile, Venery, xxi. 54. The Burre Antlier Surantlier . All the rest which growe afterwardes, vntill you come to the crowne, palme, or croche, are called Royals & Surroyals.
1630. J. Taylor (Water P.), Navy Land Ships, Wks. I. 93/1. As a Hart hath the Burs, the Pearles, the Antliers, the Surantlers, the Royals, the Surroyals, and the Croches.
1638. Guillim, Heraldry, III. xiv. (ed. 3), 179. Skilfull Wood-men describing the head of a Hart, doe call the Vpper part of all The Surroyall Toppe.
1883. Science, I. 181/2. The royal and sur-royal of the Wapiti.
1893. Lydekker, Horns & Hoofs, 271. The portion above the trez-tine carrying the surroyals.