Obs. Also 1 éast-ríce, 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 ʓeare for se micla here … eft of þæm east rice westweard.
c. 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.
