Hunting. Obs. [Belongs to STRAKE v.2] Some particular signal with the horn.
c. 1400. Master of Game (MS. Digby 182), xxxv. Þan shulde he blowe a moot and strake withoute þe moote in þe mydle forto drawe men togedre.
1470–85. Malory, Arthur, X. lii. 500. And alle the blastes that longen to all maner of gamen. Fyrste to the vncoupelynge, to the sekynge,… and to strake, and many other blastes and termes.
1576. Turberv., Venerie, Meas. Blowing (1908), 251. The Strake to the Fielde. To be blowen with twoo windes. Ibid., 254. A Strake of nyne, to drawe home the companie. With twoo windes.
