dial. Also 6 Sc. sterage, stirage, 9 dial. stirridge, etc. (see Eng. Dial. Dict.). [f. STIR v. + -AGE.] Stirring, movement, commotion.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, II. xi. 82. And me … Ilk swouch of wynd, and every quhisper now, And alkyne sterage affrayit.
1535. Stewart, Cron. Scot. (Rolls), II. 660. To remane … Without sterage ay still as ony stone.
c. 1590. J. Stewart, Poems (S.T.S.), II. 27. He stabill stands, And dois no stirage mak.
1621. Granger, Eccl. xii. 4. 320. Old men … cannot sleepe soundly,… euery small stirrage waketh them.
1892. Sarah Hewett, Peasant Sp. Devon, 128. My ivers, whot a stirridge yü make vur nort at awl!
