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Quotation dates: 1506, 1616, 1684
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Straking, Stroaking, vbl. n.1 [Late ME and e.m.E. strakinge (once, 1409), stroking (1587), stroaking (1602); Strak(e v.]
1. The act of stroking with the hand. c1616 Dalyell Darker Superst. 70.
In England the king cures the struma by stroaking; and the seventh son in Scotland
2. The act of rubbing or smearing with grease, etc.; rubbing grease on (something). 1506 Treasurer's Accounts III 203.
For mending of thre irn boltis and straking of ane axtree 1684 Symson Descr. Galloway 72.
They lay … or smear their sheep by … straking in the mixt butter and tar on the sheeps'-skin
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