Sc. Also: α. 6 strip, 5–8 stryp(e, 7 stryip; β. 7 streape, 9 streap. [Prob. cogn. w. STRIP sb.2, STRIPE sb.3; cf. WFlem. strip a running stream of liquid, e.g., of milk from a teat. Cf. OIrish sribh stream.] A small stream, a rivulet, rill.
c. 1440. Reg. Aberd. (Maitland Club), I. 248. Ascendand þat lech til it cum to þe Karlynden and swa throw þe said den descendand a stripe til it cum to þe burn of Cortycrum.
1456–70. in Acts Parlt. Scot. (1875), XII. 27/1. Begynnand at the burne that gays fra Auchquhorty quhar that the strype fallys in the said burne.
1536. Bellenden, Cron. Scot., Descr. Albion, xiii. (1821), I. p. xlvi. Fra this fontane discendis ane litil burne, or strip.
1596. Dalrymple, trans. Leslie’s Hist. Scot. (S.T.S.), II. 118. As … the water strype rinis to the fontane [L. tanquam ad fontem rivulus].
a. 1598. Rollock, Passion, i. (1616), 3. This Brooke Cedron … was a little streape that ran when it was raine.
1598. [see SOUTH A. 5 a].
1615. Extracts Aberd. Reg. (1848), II. 326. Ane great stryip callit the Banstickill burne.
1797. Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3), VII. 290/2. A very small stripe of water … should always be running in and off from your pit.
1819. W. Tennant, Papistry Storm’d (1827), 33. Ilk laird’s domain was clearly seen Defin’d wi’ streaps o’ silver sheen, That intervein’d the manors green.
1892. J. A. Henderson, Ann. Lower Deeside, 110. A hollow close by is still called the ‘Bloody Stripe.’
