Middle English Dictionary Entry
strāke n.(2)
Entry Info
| Forms | strāke n.(2) Also strak, strok; pl. strakes, etc. & straches. |
| Etymology | Prob. OE *straca (cp. streccan); also cp. AL straca, straka, stroka. The form strōk perh. influenced by ME strōk(e n. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. strik(e n.(1).
1.
(a) One of the separate pieces of iron together forming a band used to secure the felloes of a cartwheel to each other, a strake; cart ~; ~ nail, a nail for fastening strakes; -- also coll.; ~ ston, ?a piece of stone used in fashioning strakes; (b) ground ~, ?some sort of plank or plate used as foundation in building; hed ~, ?a piece of iron affixed to the share beam of a plow; plough strakes, pieces of iron used in making or repairing a plow.
Associated quotations
a
- (1292) Acc.Wellingborough in North.RS 862 : Item, in j pari nouarum rotarum ad longam carectam, vj sol. j d.; Item, In v ulnis de stroknayl, xiij d.
- (1297) in Neilson Ramsey Abbeyapp.6 : Carectæ: Idem reddit compotum in xlviii clutis ad axes ii s.; et in c de strak nayl, xiiii d.
- (1297-8) Doc.Manor in MP 3455 : [Articles Bought:] strake.
- (1323) Deed St.Peter Glo.(3) in BGAS 3864 : xxii strakis pro plaustro.
- (1350) Doc.Hatfield in Sur.Soc.32218 : In xl straknaylls empt. pro rotis affirmandis..8 d.
- (1351) in Neilson Ramsey Abbeyapp.61 : Custus carectarum: Idem computat..in c strakenayl emptis pro i pare rotarum ferrando, v s.
- (1370) Invent.Jarrow in Sur.Soc.2952 : xiij strakenaile.
- (1370) Invent.Monk-Wear.in Sur.Soc.29164 : Item in curia sunt ij carectæ ferro ligatæ..j gang de strakis.
- (1371) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.99129 : Item..xij cartcloutes veteres, strakes de ferro xij.
- (1407-8) Rec.Norwich 255 : [To John Burgeny, smith, for the shoeing of the new cart,] strakes, cloutes, [nails..40 s.].
- (1412-13) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.103609 : Pro di. gange de Cartstrakes empt. ad plaustrum de Beaurepayr, 11 s.
- (1427) Let.Bk.Lond.K (Gldh LetBk K)66 : Mooldes, toles, and prentes..[4] sowdyng irens..[3] castyngstokkes..[4] strakestones.
b
- (1316-17) Doc.Manor in MP 3454 : [Articles Bought:] groundstrake.
- (1337-8) Doc.Manor in MP 3454 : Heuedstrake ad terciam carucam.
- (1395) Cart.Whitby in Sur.Soc.72618 : Pro ii dosan plewstrakys.
- (1428) Doc.in Sur.Soc.855 : John Lyllyng sayd yat he bad John Holgate mersshall make hym ploghstrakes of drosse and landyren.
2.
(a) A line of planking in the hull of a ship, strake; also, a measure of timber [1st quot.]; (b) a reef in a sail.
Associated quotations
a
- (1378) in Sandahl ME Sea Terms 1103 : Ceste endenture faite per entre Robert Beilham..et Johan Sondaye..de..edifier vne nouelle vesselle de bon merim et des bones tables appelle balingere..ouesqe quarante et deux Ores de quatre Strok de Englisshbord.
- (1390) Inquis.Miscel.(PRO)5.158 : [The collision broke five] strakes [and the] sailȝerd [of the crayer and also her cable].
- (1419) Let.in Ellis Orig.Let.ser.2.169 : Lykyth yt to youre ryall Majeste to wete..the makyng of youre Shippe at Bayon: At the makyng of this Letter yt was in this estate, that ys to wetyng xxxvj strakys in hyth y bordyd, on the weche strakys byth y layde xj bemys.
b
- c1475(c1399) Mum & S.(1) (Cmb Ll.4.14)4.80 : For ne had þei striked a strake..And abated a bonet or þe blast come, Þey had be þrowe ouere þe borde backeward.
3.
(a) A decorative band on cloth, made of wire or thread; (b) a vein of a stone; a stripe or streak in the coat of an animal; (c) a smear of juice; a trail of mud; (d) a streak of light.
Associated quotations
a
- (1448) Acc.St.Mary Thame in BBOAJ 1215 : ij Copys of Rede Sylk wolken wt grene Sylk and Dragowns off gold, the Orfrayes of cheker velvet wt strakys of gold.
- (1451-2) Doc.in Welch Hist.Pewterers Lond.17 : Item, viij Baners wt lyly potts & straks fro Trumpetts.
- (1463-4) Doc.in Welch Hist.Pewterers Lond.30 : Item, iij Chaplettes of rede satyn with tasselles and on oon of them ij strakes and an Image of the assumpcion of oure lady of siluer.
b
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)195a/b : Alabastre is a white stoone wiþ strakes of diuers colours.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)203a/b : Þe onyx of ynde haþ colour of fuyre wiþ white veynes and strakes [L zonis].
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)297b/a : The water leche..is a worme wiþ somdel broun coloure distyngued wiþ somdel reede straches [L virgulis].
- (a1475) Recipe Painting(2) in Archaeol.J.1 (Sln 73)155 : Lapus lazuly, that be a fyne blew colour, and with many strakes of gold schewinge ther among as it were strakes on a towche.
- a1500 Peterb.Lapid.(Peterb 33)p.64 : He is a precius stone, blake & hevy & strakyd with red strakys & red weynes.
c
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)292a/a : Limax is a worme of lyme..and where euere he crepe oþer slyde he leueþ after him a glemy forow and strake of vnclennesse [L immundicie vestigium].
- c1450 Med.Bk.(1) (Med-L 136)38/72 : Bocches, Jff thow will remeve heme..Take columbyne & stamp it & wasshe it wele with þe Juse & make a longe strake wt the same juse thider as þw wilt that it shall breke.
d
- c1450(?c1400) 3 KCol.(1) (Cmb Ee.4.32)34/14 : Þe sterre..had riȝt many longe strakys and beemys, more brennyng and more liȝter than a bronde of fuyre, and as an egle..betyng þe eyre with his wynges, riȝt so the strakys and þe bemys of þe sterre stered hym-self aboute.
4.
In place names [see Smith PNElem.2.161].
Associated quotations
- (1310) EPNSoc.7 (Sus.)454 : Land called le Strake.
- (1399) EPNSoc.7 (Sus.)454 : Longestrake.
- (1427) EPNSoc.7 (Sus.)454 : Le Strake.
- (1467) EPNSoc.7 (Sus.)454 : Longestrake.