Obs. [f. STRAIT a. + -HEAD.]
a. Tightness, constriction. b. Closefistedness.
a. 1400. Stockh. Med. MS., ii. 304, in Anglia, XVIII. 315. Ȝif eyther lewyd or prest Hawe gret streythed at hys brest, Modirworte late hym takyn.
c. 1440. Jacob’s Well, 119. Anoþer sqware of þis wose in coueytise, is straythed in kepyng ryches.
