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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
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Strand, n.1 Also: strande, strond. [ME and e.m.E. strande (Orm), strond (Layamon), strand (c1595), OE strand, ON strǫnd, strand-, Du. strand.] The land bordering a river or sea; shore, (river-)bank; coast. Also attrib.Common in Doug., rendering L. litus.(a) c1420 Wynt. i 145.
[The River Nile] brystys out syne at the strande That by the Rede Se lyis strykande c1515 Asl. MS I 161/23.
On the cliftis and strandis of the [Red] se is gadderit wermilȝoun and reid precius stanis c1500-c1512 Dunb. G. Targe 61.
Thair brycht hairis hang gletering on the strandis in tressis clere c1500-c1512 Dunb. (STS) lxiii 14.
Masounis, lyand vpon the land, And schip-wrichtis, hewand vpone the strand c1500-c1512 Dunb. (STS) lxxxviii 43.
Fresh is thy ryver [sc. the Thames] with his lusty strandis 1513 Doug. ii i 29.
Desyrus forto se … The cost and strandis left desert al cleyn 1513 Doug. iii Prol. 38.
By … Onkouth costis, and mony wilsum strandis Now goith our barge 1513 Doug. iv v 72.
Ȝone woman, … bocht the grund A litil village to byg, … quhamto we For to manuyr gave the strand of the see c1552 Lynd. Mon. 4750.
Peter, Androw & Johne war fyschearis fyne … Bot thay [sc. the popes] haif fyscheit in ouerthort the strandis, Ane gret part, trewlye, of all temporall landis 1558 Prot. Bk. J. Robeson 19a.
The tenement of land liand … betuix … the strand on the north and the hie streit on the south partis(b) c1400 Troy-bk. ii 717.
The Gregeois … sayled one frome Troyes strondattrib. 1674 Kirkcudbr. B. Rec. 17 Oct.
To Georg Levingstoune Bessie Lowries halfe skair and Creckheids halfe skair at the strand edge 1674 Kirkcudbr. B. Rec. 17 Oct.
John McJoars skair at the heid of the Langhill with umquhill John Carmonts skair at the strandsyde
b. pl. In poetry, in generalised use: Climes, regions. Cf. Lynd. Mon. quot. in (a) above.c1500-c1512 Dunb. (STS) vii 52.
Throw Scotland [etc.] … Fleys on weyng thi fame … And our all cuntreis, wndirnethe the sky, And our all strandis, fro the sterris doune
