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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Quotation dates: 1685
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Unstraighted, p.p. [Strek(e v. 7 or Straucht adj. 1.] Of a corpse: Not laid out straight (for burial). —1685 Hay Fleming Six Saints I 113.
Many shall be buried unstraighted, and moals shall be the winding-sheet of many that look life-like in that day
