Obs. Also 6–7 Sc. straik. [perh. a northern form of STROKE v. But cf. STREAK v.2]
1. trans. ? To sharpen, whet.
1483. Cath. Angl., 367/1. To Strake, affilare.
2. To rub lightly, esp. with an unguent or the like; to smear, grease. Also with over. Also to smear (an unguent, etc.) upon something.
1506. Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot., III. 203. Item, for mending of thre irn boltis and straking of ane axtree, xviij s.
1535. Coverdale, Ezek. iv. 12. Barly cakes shalt thou eate, yet shalt thou first strake them ouer with mans donge, yt they maye se it.
1565. Hollybush, Hom. Apoth., 7. Let hys lamed lymmes be straked wyth water of Lauender. Ibid., 21. Strake thys [sc. a lotion] oft about hys heade.
1578. Lyte, Dodoens, I. ii. 6. With the same [preparation] … they vse to rubbe and strake painefull bleered eyes.
1579. Langham, Gard. Health, 68. Bengewin … Being straked on the eyes with Hony, it quickeneth the sight.
1588. A. King, trans. Canisius’ Catech., 72. It [sc. the chrism] is in this sacrament straiked be solemn cæremonie vpon the forhead.
1600. Surflet, Country Farm, I. xxv. 159. Afterward you shall strake the shorne sheepe all ouer their skins with your drie hande, moistened in oile and wine mingled togither, to comfort them withall.
1676. Row, Contn. Blair’s Autobiogr., xii. (1848), 427. Others thought he was but straking cream in their mouths first.
3. To draw (something) along a surface.
c. 1530. Interl. Beauty & Gd. Prop. Women, C ij. A foule rough bych … strakyng her body along on the gras.
Hence † Straking vbl. sb. concr.
1409. Acc. Exch. K. R., 44/11 (3) m. 3. In .j. lagena incasti [sic] empta … et expendita in reparacione del strakynge pro pictura eiusdem [bargie].
