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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
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Strinde, Strynd(e, n.² [ME and e.m.E. strunde (Ancr. R.), strynde (13 … ), also in the mod. Sc. and Eng. dials. Cf. Strand n.²] A stream or rivulet, usually issuing from a spring; a stream of a river. Also fig. c1400 Troy-bk. i 262.
Fra the wellis of wattere clere The stryndes in dyuerse places were Rynnand throw gravaile quhyt & clene 1446 Reg. Episc. Aberd. I 248.
Fra thine descendand to the Hartuellys and swa dovn the strynde of that wellis til it enter in a burne 1456 Hay II 6/1.
In that herbar, … thare was a faire well of water of noble nature, quhilk in divers stryndis past throu the herber till othir gardynnis … till water thame in somer 1466 (1471) Reg. Great S. 215/1.
Strinde 1488–9 Prot. Bk. J. Young II 43.
[Two acres, and the said half acre, lie between a] rynnand strynd [on the east] 1493 Antiq. Aberd. & B. II 214.
The mastir stryp … descendand lynaly fra the quhyt stane to the strynd of Sanct Huchonys well a1538 Abell 41b.
About this tyme ane lycht or lows wemen bure 7 barnis all to giddir. Sche cust thame furth in ane strynd 1594 Prot. Bk. T. Auchinlek 35b.
His tennement of land … lyand in the toun of Kirkwall … haifand … the commone passage fra the strynd to the northe [etc.] c1650 Spalding I 236.
Alexander Andersone … standing be the water syde schot this Johne Dvgar vpone the saidis Stanneris [sc. in the middle of the River Spey] deid. His men seing this, takis the flight throw the strynd to the south schoir 1699 Montrose B. Rec. 4 June.
Some incroachments made upon the Mariewell stryndfig. 1460 Hay Alex. 6848.
This warldit is bot ane vale of wikitnes Off quhilk the strynd is poisoun verraly