† ˈestriche Obs.
Also 1 éast-r{iacu}ce, 5 austridge, est(e)rych(e, 8 estreg.
[f. east + riche; cf. -ric.]
1. a. An eastern kingdom or country. b. In OE. spec. The East-Frankish kingdom.
| 893 O.E. Chron. (Parker MS.), Her on þysum ȝeare for se micla here..eft of þæm east rice westweard. a 1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 45 Þe þre kinges þe comen of estriche. |
2. attrib. estrich board: applied to timber coming from Norway or the Baltic.
[It is not quite certain that this is rightly placed here; cf. Ger. estrich floor (which however strictly means a plaster floor). But the similar use of estlande (see eastland) strongly supports the view here adopted.]
| 1350 Proclam. in Riley Mem. Lond. (1868) 261 Divers boards of estrichesborde..6l. 12s. 4d. 1354 Mem. Ripon (Surtees) III. 91 In xiij bord. de Estriche emp. pro feretro Beati Wilfridi exaltando 2s. 2d. 1459 Bury Wills (Camden Soc.) 242 Duo scabella de estryche board. 1481–90 Howard Househ. Bks. (Roxb.) 23, Xij austrige boorde, and viij. other boordes. 1514 Inv. Goods in Gentl. Mag. (1834) CIV. i. 47 In the parlour, a table of Estriche bourde with ij tristells. 1706 Phillips, Estreg bords, Boards, Deal or Firr, brought from the Eastern Parts. 1715 in Kersey. 1866 Rogers Agric. & Prices I. xx. 489 The better kinds [of boards] were called estrich and wainscot. |