Sc. Also strake. [Normal Sc. form of STROKE v. (q.v. for other senses).] trans. To level (corn, etc.) in a measure. Hence Straiked ppl. a.
1579. Extracts Rec. Convent. Burghs Scot. (1870), I. 81. Sua that all fourletis, pekis, and vther mesouris war maid of the lairgnes of the heipit mett, to be straikit and nocht heipit.
1582. Extracts Burgh Rec. Edin. (1882), IV. 236. Conform to the awld just mesour of the realme in straiket mett.
1684. A. Symson, in W. Macfarlane, Geogr. Collect. (S.H.S.), II. 101. One boll of good and sufficient meal straked measure.
1685. Peden, in P. Walker, Life, Biog. Presbyt. (1827), I. 95. Christ knows well, whether Heaping or Straiking agrees best with our narrow Vessels, for both are alike to him.
1894. Crockett, Raiders, xvii. 158. The bushel-stoup of their iniquity was nearly full measure, heaped and running over, and it would soon be straked with the Lord’s own level and plumb line.
