Obs. Also 4 struier, struyer, strier, 5 streier. [Aphetic f. DESTROYER.] A destroyer.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 16703. Aha! þou struier [Gött. struyer] o þe temple.
c. 1380. Wyclif, Wks. (1880), 128. Ȝyt þes possessioners ben þeues and so striers of clergye and of good lif in the people.
c. 1381. Chaucer, Parl. Foules, 360. The drake, stroyer of his owne kinde.
1589. R. Robinson, Golden Mirr. (Chetham Soc.), 18. He layes not gether poore men’s grounds He is no countrey stroyer.
