Obs. rare. [app. a. OF. estraignant (one example), denoting some kind of musical note.] App. a musical note written with two stems; a breve. Cf. STRENE sb.2
c. 1325. in Rel. Ant., I. 292. Ȝet ther is a streinant [printed streiuant] witz to longe tailes.
