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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
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Strip(e, Stryp(e, n.1 Also: strypp, stryip(e, striype, straip, streape. [? f. as Stripe n.2 or Strip n. Cf. WFlem. strip a running stream of liquid, and OIr. sribh a stream.] A small stream or rivulet. A gully. Also attrib.(1) 1458 Liber Aberbr. II 103.
Ascendand to the north to … Scottismyll tyll ane strype at the west part of Lytil Kenny the quhilk stripe deuydis it fra Myllaschangly 1512 Antiq. Aberd. & B. III 154.
Beginnand at the stryp at the Meyr Stane as it fallis in the sie 1531 Bell. Boece I xlvi.
Fra this fontane discendis ane litil burne, or strip, rinnand ful of rounis to the seis 1565 Bamff Chart. 99.
Quhair ane stryp or runner desending northerlie down … enters in the said burn a1568 Bann. MS 211b/13.
Strypis hes stremes alsweill as fludes hes springis 1580 Milne-Home MSS 51.
Northwert as the strype or watter passage gangis to the Lempat furde 1595 Breadalbane Ct. Bk. 96b.
Thow brocht the same kow to Candknokan and thair hid hir in strype to the ene 1598 (1600) Reg. Great S. 387/1.
Passand south the said balk to the laitch or strype callit the Bauchlandlaitch 1587-99 Hume 25/16.
The little larks … tunes their sangs … Ou'r midow, mure, and stryp 16… Macfarlane's Geog. Coll. III 99.
There is not one strype in all these forrests that wants trout & other sorts of fishes 1600-1610 Melvill 259.
Ryding … upon an kitle hat ridden hors, approtching to a strype weill how of sevin or aught feet brod 1601 Reg. Great S. 417/1.
Ane stryp or burne 1611 Reg. Panmure I xcii.
Thear as the strype or auld vattirgange entres in the burne a1634 Read Buch. 21.
Strypps 1661 Forfar Witches in Reliq. Antiq. Sc. 133.
Hee had strucken hir and drawen hir in ane strip 1672 M. P. Brown Suppl. Decis. II 710.
Nothing of all which is here, but a pitiful burn-mouth, never holden for one [sc. a port]; else all the strips in Scotland, where they degorge into the sea, should as well deserve that denomination 1684 Kirkcudbr. Sheriff Ct. Deeds II 381 (23 May).
[Oak Wood … bounded by the] strype or cleuch [on the march of Fintloch](b) ?1549 Monro W. Isles (Balfour MS) 11.
Out of this weell runs ther ane little striype dounewith to the sea 1615 Aberd. B. Rec. II 326.
Ane great stryip callit the Bantstickill burne(c) a1599 Rollock Wks. II 15.
This brook Cedron was a water which ran between Jerusalem and the Mount of Olives … and it was a little streape that ran when it was rain, but in time of drought it was dry(2) 1515 Elphinstone Mun. 19.
Begynnand at the watter of Bogy at the inpassing of the stryip off Flockhildoun in the said wattir 1595 Bamff Chart. 141.
Ane stryp of watter 1618 Antiq. Aberd. & B. II 371.
Desending doun the stryp of Dargattie 1683 Mining Rec. xxvii.
There is … silver in a stripe of water, ten fathomes … from the spring that runs into the stripe a1686 Turner Mem. 46.
We stormd a trench they had at the foot of the hill, wherby they commanded tuo stripes of water 1693 Elgin Rec. I 354.
That the current of the stryp of Tayock be casten and red from Lossie vpward(3) 1219–33 Antiq. Aberd. & B. II 427.
Procedendo ad Caetrin Stryp 1253 Barrow Anglo-Norman Era App. C 201.
Le gresiam stripe 1499 Echt-Forbes Chart. 86.
A grene strip callit the Bragacht 1570 Strathblane Par. 322.
The landis of Quylt … beginnand at the eist at ane well callit Sanct Makkessokis well, and fra thyne furth as the said well stryp rynnis to the watter of Blane 1578 Aberd. Chart. 338.
Haldand the wynter strype that rynnis be the wast syd of the Nathir Stracht 1588 Antiq. Aberd. & B. III 127 n.
West through the mos to the gryt stryp as the samen is propit carnit and merchit 1596 Dalr. II 118/9.
The les to the mair, the water strype rinis to the fontane 1609 Aberd. Sheriff Ct. II 148.
The stryipe callit the Keill stryipe of the Hollmill 1618 Antiq. Aberd. & B. II 371.
At the heid of the Wheyt stryp 1656 Misc. Spald. C. V 231.
A gryt stryff and debait … for ane water stryp that runns at ther north end of the croftis; by reason, som of the saids tennentis demmis the water … and convoiyes the same out aff the right watergang(b) 1552 Prot. Bk. R. Lumsdane 20.
Ane karne maid for ane merche in the myddist of ane watter straip and fluche quhilk rynis out of the peit myirisattrib. 1566 Reg. Great S. 441/1.
Ane rynning strype burne
b. A gutter.1566 Crail B. Ct. 17 May.
The guitter stryp one the veist betuix him and the ȝaird 1662 Edinb. B. Rec. IX 295.
Agries to the building of the new chopes in the Parliament closse … provyding they come no farder out upon the closse then within a fute of the strype
