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▪ I. straik, n.1 Sc. and north.|streɪk|
Also 9 strake, straike, straick.
[f. straik v.]
†1. by straik: by ‘straiked’ or levelled (as distinguished from heaped) measure. Also attrib. in straik measure. Sc. Obs.
1549Extracts Aberd. Reg. (1844) I. 264 That frathinfurth na maner of malt nor beir that cumis to the guid tovnn to sell be mett in tymes cumyng bot with ane straik mesour. 1567Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1814) III. 39/2 It is desyrit ane straik mett be maid vniuersalie through all þe realme. 1587Ibid. 521/2 For eschewing of fraud hes thocht expedient that all wictuall in tyme cuming salbe mesorit be straik.
2. The normal proportion of malt for a brewing.
App. only in Scott; the quots. do not seem to justify the usual rendering ‘bushel’ (cf. strike, stroke ns.).
1820Scott Abbot xix, With a single straike of malt to counterbalance a double allowance of water. 1821― Pirate iv, The ‘bern’..never quitted hold of the tankard with so much reluctance as when there had been..a double straik of malt allowed to the brewing. 1823― Quentin D. Introd., A double straick of John Barleycorn.
†3. A measure of timber. Obs. rare—1.
1542Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. VIII. 95 Ane straik of buirdis, as the bill of compt thairupoune beris.
4. A piece of wood coated with sand or emery, used for sharpening scythes; = strickle, strike n.
1844H. Stephens Bk. Farm III. 1063 The sharpening should always be finished with the straik or strickle. 1894Crockett Lilac Sunbonnet vii. 59 The clear metallic sound of the ‘strake’ or sharpening strop.
▪ II. straik, n.2 Sc. rare.|streɪk|
? A narrow channel in a stream.
1847Stoddart Angler's Comp. 42 The rocky straiks and clippers that afford facilities for fish to cut or wear through the line. Ibid. 259 In rapid water, such as the necks of streams, straiks, and eddies, the plying and working of the hook is not always requisite.
▪ III. straik, v. Sc.|streɪk|
Also strake.
[Normal Sc. form of stroke v. (q.v. for other senses).]
trans. To level (corn, etc.) in a measure. Hence straiked ppl. a.
1579Extracts Rec. Convent. Burghs Scot. (1870) I. 81 Sua that all fourletis, pekis, and vther mesouris war maid of the lairgnes of the heipit mett, to be straikit and nocht heipit. 1582Extracts Burgh Rec. Edin. (1882) IV. 236 Conform to the awld just mesour of the realme in straiket mett. 1684A. Symson in W. Macfarlane Geogr. Collect. (S.H.S.) II. 101 One boll of good and sufficient meal straked measure. 1685Peden in P. Walker Life Biog. Presbyt. (1827) I. 95 Christ knows well, whether Heaping or Straiking agrees best with our narrow Vessels, for both are alike to him. 1894Crockett Raiders xvii. 158 The bushel-stoup of their iniquity was nearly full measure, heaped and running over, and it would soon be straked with the Lord's own level and plumb line.
▪ IV. straik
obs. f. strake; obs. Sc. f. stroke; obs. Sc. pres. stem and pa. tense of strike v. |