[f. STREET sb.] trans. To furnish or provide with streets, to lay out in streets. Also to street out, to lay out as a street or road.
1555. W. Watreman, Fardle Facions, I. iv. 46. The chiefe citie … strieted with tentes and pauilions placed in good ordre.
c. 1645. Howell, Lett. (1655), I. I. xii. 18. There are few places this side the Alps better built, and so well Streeted as this.
1760. in Weekly Reporter (1877), XXV. 470. The said [allottees] shall street out the same way leading through their said respective allotments so that the same shall be made and ever after remain eleven yards broad at the least.
Hence Streeted ppl. a.; Streeting vbl. sb.
1876. Morris, Sigurd, III. 201. Though a house of the windy battle their streeted burg be grown.
1889. Pall Mall Gaz., 13 April, 1/3. The absence of any direct line … between Holborn and the Strand is the greatest blot in the present streeting of Central London.
