Please explain the meaning of a deal soul

[gonghoujun]

Dear Teachers,
There is this sentence: ‘Talk about destiny, all those dreams, hopes and expectations were snatched away from her in an instant. Her smiles were frowns and her faith just crumbled, like a deal soul in a living, rather breathing body’ in this story Another man's folly. But I don’t kown the meaning of a deal soul,especilly ‘deal’. Is it a typo word?
Please explain it, thanks.

 

[emsr2d2]

Dear Teachers,
There is this sentence:‘Talk about destiny, all those dreams, hopes and expectations were snatched away from her in an instant. Her smiles were frowns and her faith just crumbled, like a deal soul in a living, rather breathing body’ in this story Another man's folly. But I don’t kown the meaning of a deal soul,especilly ‘deal’. Is it a typo word?
Please explain it, thanks.

I suspect it's a typo, and the word should be "dead".

 

[gonghoujun]

Thank Teacher Emsr2d2 for your good reply!

 

[Barb_D]

I'm so convinced it was a typo that my brain saw "dead" even though the word was "deal" -- it wasn't until I read your question and went back and re-read that I saw it was "deal."

 

[Jaskin]

hi,
On another note, there is just one entry in the dictionary for deal as an adjective :

deal adjective: made of fir or pine ("A plain deal table")

Cheers

 

[gonghoujun]

Thank Teachers very much for your discussions for my quetion.

 

[Barb_D]

hi,
On another note, there is just one entry in the dictionary for deal as an adjective :

deal adjective: made of fir or pine ("A plain deal table")

Cheers

Is this used in the UK? I've never seen it before.

 

[emsr2d2]

Is this used in the UK? I've never seen it before.

I haven't seen/heard it but then I'm not exactly up on my furniture-making jargon!