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▪ I. strath Sc.|stræθ|
Also 7 strathe, straith.
[a. Gael. srath = Ir. srath, sratha, W. ystrad.]
A wide valley; a tract of level or low-lying land traversed by a river and bounded by hills or high ground.
1540Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. (1883) 464 Terras de Auchnahay Auchalane, Dugerre, Kinloch, Auchranich, cum lie Strath, cum le Clasche et le Claschebrek. 1639Sir R. Gordon Geneal. Hist. Earld. Sutherld. (1813) 4 The valies which doe ly upon the banks of these rivers and inlets of water, as they doe ascend from the sea to the mountanes, ar called Strathes. 1721Ramsay Poet's Wish i, Those fair straths that water'd are With Tay and Tweed's smooth streams. 1750Collins Ode Superstit. Highlands iv, When, o'er the wat'ry strath, or quaggy moss, They see the gliding ghosts unbodied troop. 1753Stewart's Trial 203 The deponent answered, that he had seen no person from the strath (or vale) of Appin. 1814Scott Wav. xiii, A ridge of distant and blue hills, which formed the southern boundary of the strath, or valley. 1873Geikie Gt. Ice Age xii. 154 The river Clyde..flows towards the north-west in a valley that gradually expands to a broad open strath.
†b. loosely. A stretch of flat land by the waterside. Obs.
1699G. Turnbull Diary in Scot. Hist. Soc. Misc. (1893) I. 383 The place is pretty pleasant, close by Forth watarside, att the foot of Craigmor, betwixt which and the watar there is a strath very proper for walking. c1730Burt Lett. N. Scot. (1818) I. 290 A strath is a flat space of arable land lying along the side or sides of some capital river between the water and the feet of the hills.
▪ II. strath
obs. form of straight. |