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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
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Quotation dates: 1662
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(Straken,) v. P.t. strakned. P.p. strukned. [? Strak(e n.2] ? To become striped or streaky. — 1662 Criminal Trials III 605.
[We] maid an pictur of clay … . We laid the face of it to the fyre, till it strakned; and a cleir fyre round abowt it, till it ves read lyk a cole 1662 Criminal Trials III 612.
Efter it had strukned [pr. skrukned] a litle befor the fyre, and quhan it ves read lyk a coale, we took it owt in the Divellis nam
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