Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1974 (SND Vol. IX).
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¶STRAIN, n. A mistake for Stend, a stride, which is the reading in Herd's published ed. of 1776, II. 190. Not connected with Eng. dial. strinde, id.Sc. a.1776 H. Hecht Herd's MSS (1904) 230:
Patie cam in wi' a strain.
