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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
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Strip(e, Stryp(e, Stryip(p, n.3 [Late ME and e.m.E. stripe (Prompt. Parv.), strype (c1475), strypp (c1485), MLG strippe strap, whip-lash, mod. Du. strippen to whip, strips a flogging.] A blow with the hand or with a weapon; a stroke with a whip or scourge. Also fig.1560 Rolland Seven S. 6708.
Twa stripis or thre, till hir sa hes he lent 1587 Carmichael Etym. 36.
Verbera, stripes 1590–1 Crim. Trials I ii 220.
Hee … promised to teach him [sc. the scholar] without stripes 1590–1 Crim. Trials I ii 221. 1592 Elgin Rec. II 24.
[Users of] filthie and abhominable langage … salbe haid to the croce naikit fra thair belt up and thair ressaue ane half dussane strypis 1605-6 Welsh Forty-eight Serm. 498.
There is never a stripe that his back keeped, but it will be a healing salve to thy soul 1681 Inverness Rec. II 294.
To receive sex stripes 1703 Hossack Kirkwall 363.
To give her eight stryps with his whipfig. c1600 Montg. Suppl. xi 32.
Thy folie sell at lenthe be maid thi quhipp, And soir the stryippis of schame sell caus thé smartt
b. As a nickname: ‘Scourge’.1570 Sat. P. xiii 99.
Ȝe wer ay callit for ȝour tyrannie Strypis of the schyre
