Obs. Also 7 streit. Aphetic form of ESTREAT v.
a. 1601. Sir T. Fanshawe, Pract. Exch. (1658), 53. The Lord Treasurors Remembrancer … hath his Office cheifly established upon the execution of the originall, save for the great accounts, the Customers, controllers and searchers, that is yearly streated to him out of the Chancerie.
1605. Southampton Crt. Leet Rec. (1907), I. 427. Manie thinhabitants … were absent at the lawdaye…. [Margin adds] To be streited.
1808. W. Herbert, Ella Rosenberg, I. 136. ‘No!’ exclaimed the count…. ‘I will remain in my castle. If I perish here, at least they will not streate my castle from my posterity!’
