'struev.
/struː/ School slang.
transitive and intransitive = construe v.
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society > education > learning > study > subject or object of study > [verb (intransitive)] > do grammar exercise
'strue1903
1903 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang VII. i. 14/2 Strue, verb, (schools'), ‘construe’.
1906 D. Coke Bending of Twig viii. 125 Russell..made Lycidas extend his 'struing services to six more mornings' work.
Derivatives
'strue n. = construe n.
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1906 D. Coke Bending of Twig viii. 122 But mind, you've promised to sap out the 'strues, and 'strue them to me.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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