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Quotation dates: 1505, 1559-1683
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Stroup(e, n. Also: strowp, stroop, strop, stroap. [ME and e.m.E. stroup (Manning), strowpe (Prompt. Parv.), ON strúpe throat.]
1. The throat. 1661 Reg. Privy C. 3 Ser. I 21.
They … went into the byre and cutted the stroaps of eight heid of bestiall
2. A spout. 1505 Glasgow Dioc. Reg. II 114.
Item duas phiolas argenti, quarum vna caret cannali siue aqueductu le strowp 1559–60 11th Rep. Hist. MSS. XI App. vi 223.
Ane lawar of siluer with hech strowpis 1575 Edinburgh Testaments III 318a.
Ipothecar … In his buith … ane cheueret with ane brokin stroupe price iij s. 1607 Edinburgh Testaments XLIII 46b.
Ane tin stoup with ane stroup price xx s. 1631 Buccleuch Household Bk. 29 Oct.
A bassine and a lavor tua siluer stropis [etc.] c1650 Spalding I 35.
At the Mercat Cros … his Majesties helth wes hartfullie drunkin … the haill strovpis thairof [sc. the fountain] rynning over with wyne in abundance
3. Appar., a hosepipe. 1672 Sinclair Hydrostaticks 292.
This defect (lack of air in levels) might be supplied by the blowing of bellows, from above ground, through a stroop of leather 1683 Reid Sc. Gard'ner 95.
Dash water on the trees for caterpillers, by the stroups we get from Holland
4. ? A hood.? Or erron. for Stoup n. 1 c. 1579 Bk. Univ. Kirk II 431.
Superstitious rites … as … lang gownes with stroupes, and torches; … the Kirk thoght the crosse and the stroupes … ethnick lyke
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