Obs. Forms: 3 strunde, 4–5 strynde, 5 strind, (9 dial. strine). See also STRAND sb.2 [Early ME. stründe.
The word has the appearance of a ppl. derivative from the root of STREAM sb.; but it is found in no other Teut. lang.]
A stream, rivulet.
a. 1225. Ancr. R., 188. Þe blodi streames [v.rr. strundes, strunden] urnen adun.
a. 1240. Ureisun, in O. E. Hom., I. 187. Þe strunden þe striken adun of þine deorwurþe fet.
13[?]. E. E. Allit. P., C. 311. Þy stryuande stremez of stryndes so mony.
c. 1400. Sc. Trojan War, I. 263. The stryndes in dyuerse places were Rynnand throw gravaile quhyt & clene.
c. 1450. St. Cuthbert (Surtees), 6675. It takes name of a watir strynde, Þe whilk þat tyme was calde lynde.
1456. Sir G. Hay, Bk. Knighthood, Wks. (S.T.S.), II. 6. A faire well of water … quhilk in divers stryndis past throu the herber till othir gardynis.
1456. [see SINK-HOLE1].
[1841. Hartshorne, Salop. Ant., Gloss., Strine, a ditch.
1879. Miss Jackson, Shropsh. Word-bk., Strine, a water-channel.]
