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Strakit, Straikit, p.p., ppl. adj. Also: strakyt, -ed, straiket, -ed, streikit, streakit, -ed, stryked. [Strak(e n.³] a. Of grain, etc.: Measured by the use of a strake to level off the surface of the grain with the top of the container; not heaped. b. ppl. adj. Of a quantity of grain, etc.: Measured in this fashion. Also ellipt. c. Of a measure: Of a size to accommodate sufficient grain, etc. to allow this sort of measuring.a. p.p. 1359 Exch. R. I 566.
Pro j … et quinque celdris auene, strakyt 1549 Aberd. B. Rec. I 264.
Beir that cumis to the guid tovnn to sell be mett in tymes cumyng bot with ane straik mesour, and the byaris to haue thair mesour strakit allanerlie samekill as tha by 1579 Conv. Burghs I 81.
All fourletis, pekis, and vther mesouris … of the lairgnes of the heipit mett to be straikit and nocht heipit 1622 Linlithgow B. Rec. 13 Dec.
The girsteris [to] pay to the takisman … sex firlottis of peas, ane lovmefull peas and ane lovmefull meill straikit 1652 Peebles B. Rec. II 1.
The under milleres to have onlie ane capfull meall straikit for ilk boll schilline 1678 Banff Field C. (1903-4) 25.
It is ordained that … the shilling be straiked and the meall also being clean sifted 1684 Symson Descr. Galloway 73.
Three bolls of corne will not yield much more than one boll of good and sufficient meal straked measureppl. adj. 1541 Acta Conc. Publ. Aff. 510.
Ane boll of straikit mele for the teynd of ilk husbandland 1579 Edinb. Test. VII 133.
I leue to be gevin to the pure of Kelso twa bollis strakit meill and xx s. of siluer 1596 Edinb. Test. XXIX 470.
Streikit 1603 Liber Dryburgh 322.
xxiiij bollis straikit aitt meillb. 1541–2 Perth Guildry 515.
That the baxtaris … haue grundin … sextene firlottis quhit strakit mett 1582 Edinb. B. Rec. IV 236.
Fyndis the watter mettis and land mettis … to be awld, worn, and decayet, … to caus renew and mak ower the sam conform to the awld just mesour of the realme in straiket mett 1601 St. A. Baxter Bks. 65.
That na brother of craft that gryndis at ony myln pay mair knaship nor ane straikit leipie and ane halfe of flowre for ilk bag of quheit grinding 1618 Acts IV 587/1.
It hath beine thought … that thrie straiked firlots for two heaped firlots sex straiked firlots for foure heaped firlots was … a just proportion 1618 Acts IV 587/1.
Streaked 1627 Rep. Parishes 10.
The minister is provydit be the plott of old to threiscoir bollis victuall quheit beir and meill streakit mett 1652 Peebles B. Rec. II 1.
[The miller] to receave [onlie] ane straiket capfull for the knaveschipe of ilk boll [schilline] to the firloit 1672 Haddington B. Rec. (Robb) 11 Nov.
For evrie halff boll of shilling ane stryked dishfull of meill 1684 Symson Descr. Galloway 99.
They sell meale, salt, and pease, all straked measureellipt. 1536 Haddington B. Rec. (Robb) 11 Nov.
The fermaris dischargs all heipit knaistchips of meill, bot to tak streikitc. 1581 Edinb. B. Rec. IV 207.
Ane just new mesour of the half boll mett to be straiket and conform to the new furlettis