▪ I. beˈstrut, v.
In 6 bestrout.
[f. be- 4 + strut v.]
trans. To strut or walk pompously over.
| 1594 Carew Tasso (1881) 74 With sauage insteps some the soyle bestrout. |
▪ II. † beˈstrut, ppl. a. Obs.
Also bestrutted.
[Cf. astrut, and strut, whence this seems to have been formed on the analogy of compounds in be- found only in pa. pple.]
Swollen.
| 1603 Holland Plutarch's Mor. 632 Pappes bestruct with milke. 1648 Herrick Oberon's Feast, Poems (1869) 127 He..eates the sagge And well bestrutted bees sweet bag. |