Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1974 (SND Vol. IX).
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¶STROP, v.2 ? A misreading for stroked in the quot. below, as an anglicised form of Straik, v., 7. (1).Lnk. 1730 W. Hunter Biggar (1862) 189:
Each load of meal ['s custom] was the full of the town-ladle, neither heaped nor stropped.
