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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
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Strubill, Strouble, v. Also: stroubel. P.t. also stroblyt, stroublyt. P.p. also strublyt. [ME strubl- (Wyclif), strabil (c1425); aphetic f. Distrouble v., Distruble v.] tr.
1. a. To disturb, cause distress to. b. To molest, interfere with; to assault.a. a1400 Leg. S. xviii 936.
Sangis … of lychery … That I was wount in warld to synge, Has me stroublyt in mekil thinge a1400 Leg. S. xviii 948.
Tha thochtis for to put me fra, My soroful corce that stroblyt sa 1456 Hay II 127/18.
Fumygaciounis … quhilkis indisponis the harnis and stroubelis the mynde 1456 Hay II 149/36.
Malice and … fedis quhilk sall strouble thé and thy realme, and bring it sone doune to destructioun c1475 Wall. xi 1072.
The sayr bandys so strowblyt all his thocht 1494 Loutfut MS 132a.
And stokand with a poynt is litil laubour and litil strublis the bodyb. 1460 Hay Alex. 1252.
Nane suld bett nor boist Na strubill man repairand to the ost 14… Statut. Sc. Ch. 5.
We curs … Al that strublis the kyngis pece without leyf 1513 Selkirk B. Ct. (ed.) 24.
Geiff sa beis the said Symon his ayris … or subtenandis be inquiet wexit and strublit in peciable browking of the said hous 1520–3 Old Dundee II 346.
It is clearly proven be famous witnesses that Agnes Thomson hes stroublit Elene Cant, and hes dung her and her son 1549 Aberd. B. Rec. I 266.
The said Dauid … was strikin and strublit be ane scholar … with ane tre
2. To make (the air) turbid or murky.a1400 Leg. S. xl 571.
A cloud … Stroublit the ayre, in sic manere That the lifte, [that] befor wes clere, Wes myrkare than the nycht 1456 Hay II 132/11.
The tyme is myrk and blak, and the air stroublit c1460 Thewis Wysmen 207.
Thocht a day strublyt be the are, Ane vthir eftir cummys faire
