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First published 1974 (SND Vol. IX).
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STRAIKEN, n. Also straicken, straken, -in, stra(i)king, streiking, stricking, stracken. A kind of coarse linen, a little finer than Harn, n.² (e.Sc. 1808 Jam.).Sc. 1701 Atholl MSS. (18 Aug.):
40 lib. scots to buy in course lining or that they call strackens about 9 sh. the elle.Mry. 1708 E. D. Dunbar Social Life (1865) 209:
Eight pair of straken sheits.Edb. 1762 Caled. Mercury (1 Nov.):
A pair of fine sheets, and a pair of coarse streiking ditto.Slg. 1788 R. Galloway Poems 111:
Wi' plaiding hose, and straiken sarket.Knr. 1795 Stat. Acc.¹ VI. 169:
Some coarse tweels, some harns and straikens.Sc. 1810 Scots Mag. (July) 553:
A web of straiking, or coarse linen.Lnk. 1819 Edb. Ev. Courant (14 June) 3:
Good strakings sold at 2s., and harn from 18d. to 22d.Sc. 1838 Chambers's Jnl. (13 Jan.) 405:
A good straicken or coarse linen web in the loom.