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▪ I. strunt, n.1 Now dial. (Sc. and north.)|strʌnt|
[Cf. strunt a.; also Sw. dial. strunt stiff grass.]
The fleshy part of the tail of an animal, esp. of a horse; also, rarely, that of a bird. Hence, also, the whole tail.
[1577: cf. strunt a.] 1610Markham Masterp. i. ciii. 205 Feele all downe the strunte of his taile with your hand. 1674Ray N.C. Words, Strunt: the tail or rump. 1679Lond. Gaz. No. 1413/4 A gray Nag..with a sprig tail, and his Strunt groweth crooked towards the right buttock. 1788W. H. Marshall Yorksh. II. 357 Strunt; the dock of a horse, independant of the hair, also the tail of slaughtered cattle or sheep, when the skin is taken off. 1866J. E. Brogden Prov. Lincs., Strunt, the rump of a bird. 1884G. S. Streatfeild Lincolnsh. & Danes Gloss. 368 Strunt, the denuded tail of a quadruped or bird. 1886S.W. Linc. Gloss., Strunt, the bony, fleshy part of a horse's tail. ‘It's strunt's so long; it's a pity but what it were docked.’ ‘The hair's cutten off close agen the strunt's end.’ a1930D. H. Lawrence Phoenix (1936) 16 Wag thy [sc. a puppy's] strunt, then!
▪ II. strunt, n.2 Sc. and north.|strʌnt|
[Cf. strum n.4, stunt n.1 3.]
A fit of ill-humour or sulks; esp. in phr. to take the strunt.
1721Ramsay Richy & Sandy 8 Wow man, that's unco' sad,—Is't that ye'r jo Has ta'en the strunt? 1776C. Keith Farmer's Ha' lv, Take tent, and nae wi' strunts offend. 1776Herd's Scott. Songs (ed. 2) II. 222 Fare ye weel, my auld wife, The steerer up o' strunt and strife. c1817Hogg Tales & Sk. V. 287 The Marquess took the strunt, and would neither ratify some further engagement which he had come under, nor stand to those he had subscribed on oath. 1894Northumbld. Gloss., Strunt, a pique, pet. ‘He's teyun the strunts.’ 1895P. H. Hunter James Inwick iii. 31 The laird took the strunt on the heid o't, an' gied ower comin to the kirk.
▪ III. strunt, n.3 Sc.|strʌnt|
[Of obscure origin.]
Spirituous liquor.
1786Burns Halloween xxviii, Syne, wi' a social glass o' strunt, They parted aff careerin Fu' blythe that night. 1788― Meg o' the Mill 7 A dram o' gude strunt in a morning early.
▪ IV. † strunt, a. north. Obs.
[Cf. stunt a.]
Stumpy.
1577Richmond Wills (Surtees) 273, I geve and bequethe unto Christofer Wyvell..my dunne horse which was under strunte tayle maire. 1658Franck North. Mem. (1694) 155 Let..your Hooks [be] well tempered..; their Points well drawn out, and as sharp as Needles, but their Birbs as stiff and as strunt as Bristles.
▪ V. strunt, v.1|strʌnt|
[f. strunt n.1]
trans. To cut short, esp. to dock the tail of (a horse or sheep). Hence ˈstrunted ppl. a.
1688Holme Armoury ii. 176/2 Terms used by Shepheards... Strunted sheep, is when their Tails are cut off to keep them from Dunging them, and breeding of Maggots therein. 1703Thoresby Let. to Ray, Strunted pp., cut off short. 1828Carr Craven Gloss., Strunt, to dock a horse's tail. 1889N.W. Linc. Gloss. (ed. 2), Strunt, to dock the tail of a horse; sometimes, though very rarely, used with regard to sheep also.
▪ VI. strunt, v.2 Sc.|strʌnt|
[Cf. strut v.; also Norw. strunta to walk stiffly as under a burden; to be haughty and stiff in manner (Ross).]
intr. To move with a self-important air.
The ordinary version of Muirland Willie (see 1st quot.) runs: The wooer he stept up the house.
17..Old Song (Jam. 1808) The wooer strunted up the house. 1786Burns To a Louse i, I canna say but ye strunt rarely, Owre gawze and lace. 1789D. Davidson Seasons 50 An to Strathfallan green burn-brae Fu' nimbly she [sc. a cow] did strunt. |