vbl. sb. Obs. [f. STRAIT v. + -ING1.] = STRAITENING vbl. sb.
1421. Coventry Leet Bk., 31. Dyuers perels had afortyme by floodys thurgh stoppyng and strayting of the same Ryvers.
1472–5. Rolls of Parlt., VI. 159/1. The outrageous enhaunsyng and streytyng of Weeres.
1591. Jas. VI., Lett., 12 June, in New Discov. Pontif. Pract. Persec. J. Udall (1643), 43. Requesting you … that … it may please you to let them be relieved of their present straite,… respecting both their former merit,… and the great slander which could not faile to fall out upon their further straiting for any such occasion.
