Obs. Also 4–5 stroble, -il(l, 4–6 struble, 5 stroubel, -ulle, strowble, (? strabil). [Aphetic f. DISTROUBLE v. Cf. STURBLE v.]
1. trans. To disturb, trouble.
c. 1375. Sc. Leg. Saints, xviii. (Mary Egypt), 948. Þa thochtis for to put me fra, my soroful corce þat stroblyt sa.
1382. Wyclif, Micah vii. 3. Thei strubliden [1388 sturbliden] to gydre it [Vulg. conturbaverunt eam].
a. 1400–50. Wars Alex., 856. And Philip falne [was] sare seke & all þe fest strubled [Dubl. stroblet].
c. 1425. St. Mary of Oignies, I. viii. in Anglia, VIII. 140/32. She knewe þe sleightes and wiles of þe enmy, þat gladly wolde strabil hir.
c. 1470. Henry, Wallace, XI. 1072. The sayr bandys so strowblyt all his thocht.
1538. Extracts Aberd. Reg. (1844), I. 156. Als the saydis Robert and Johnn hed strublit … this guid towne, in stoping of dansing [etc.].
2. To make turbid or cloudy.
c. 1375. Sc. Leg. Saints, xl. (Ninian), 571. A cloud vondir blak … stroublit þe ayre.
a. 1500. Ratis Raving, II. 207. Thocht a day strublyt be the are, Ane vihir efter cumys faire.
Hence † Stroubling vbl. sb. Also † Stroubler.
a. 1400. Hampole’s Prose Tr., 22. With oute lettynge or strobillynge of worldely besynes.
c. 1460. Promp. Parv. (Winch.), 439/1. Stroblare, or troblare, perturbator. [The entry is in the alphabetical place of Storb-; cf. Way 477/2.]
a. 1500. Wisd. Sol., 652, in Ratis Raving (1870), 20. The strublyne of fulys crabis the visman.
