A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
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Quotation dates: 1675-1700+
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(Strauchting,) Straughting, Straighting, Streighting, vbl. n. [e.m.E. strayght (1530), straight (1583), also in the later dial.; Straucht adj.] Straightening, making straight. —1675 Glasgow B. Rec. III 196.
A litle peice waist grund … quhich if it wer included within the wall to be built be the said Mr. Mathow wold accomodat him in straughting the yaird within and mak the streit regular without 1697 Glasgow B. Rec. IV 237.
For accomodating and straighting of the said dyke 1721 Glasgow B. Rec. V 114.
The eastwall of the fleshmercat … may be a marr and hinderance in the streighting of the new street
