▪ I. † streat, n. Obs.
Forms: 5 streete, strete, 6 streate, streitte, streicte, streyte, strette.
[Aphetic variant of estreat n.]
= estreat n. 1 and 2. Also attrib. as streat-office.
| c 1440 Promp. Parv. 480/1 Streete catchepol bok to gader by mercymentys. 1451 Paston Lett. Suppl. 34 Blake was atte London on Thursday and herd no word of the stretes. 1467 in Eng. Gilds (1870) 400 Alle suche issues so forfet by defaute to be written out in stretys. 1479 Ibid. 421 Ther⁓upon the seide Toune clerk to make vp his Stretys vnto the Baillifs. 1507 in Sel. Cases Star Chamber (Selden Soc.) 257 He..retaynyth the Court Rolls..and also the Streittes of the same Courtes. 1538 in Reg. Priory St. Bees (Surtees) 486 All mercyamentes and fynys in ye strettes of ye graves marcyell in ye courtes of sanct Bees. a 1547 in J. R. Boyle Hedon (1875) App. 73 The maiore or chamberlains or any other officer that hathe anye streictes, rentalles, or bookes. c 1550 Ibid. App. 85 All accyons that comes to your handes ye shall enttare and make owt your streytes of the same. a 1601 Sir T. Fanshawe Pract. Exch. (1658) 93 He certifieth into the Clerke of the Streate office Yearly in the Exchequer, all the Kings moities recovered. |
▪ II. † streat, v. Obs.
Also 7 streit.
Aphetic form of estreat v.
| a 1601 Sir T. Fanshawe Pract. Exch. (1658) 53 The Lord Treasurors Remembrancer..hath his Office cheifly established upon the execution of the originall, save for the great accounts, the Customers, controllers and searchers, that is yearly streated to him out of the Chancerie. 1605 Southampton Crt. Leet Rec. (1907) I. 427 Manie thinhabitants..were absent at the lawdaye... [Margin adds] To be streited. 1808 W. Herbert Ella Rosenberg I. 136 ‘No!’ exclaimed the count... ‘I will remain in my castle. If I perish here, at least they will not streate my castle from my posterity!’ |
▪ III. streat(e, streatch
see street, stretch v.