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Definition of Strig
1. Noun. (botany) A pedicel or footstalk, especially of a flowering or fruit-bearing plant, such as the currant. ¹
2. Noun. The tang of a sword-blade. ¹
3. Noun. (context: UK dialectal) The string of a button. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Strig
1. to remove the stalks from [v STRIGGED, STRIGGING, STRIGS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Strig
Literary usage of Strig
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1887)
"Now doan't 'ee put the cherry-strig in's mouth." strig (2) vb. To take the fruit
from off the stalk or strig; as to strig currants, gooseberries, &c. ..."
2. The Red Dragon: The National Magazine of Wales edited by Charles Wilkins, James Harris (1883)
"Camden, in his Britannia, calls it strig-hul, but in his map of Monmouthshire we
meet with " strig-hall at Strugle Castle," which place is marked at about ..."
3. A Dictionary of the Kentish Dialect and Provincialisms in Use in the County by William Douglas Parish, William Francis Shaw, John White Masters (1887)
"Now doan't 'ee put the cherry-strig in's mouth." strig (2) vb. To take the fruit
from off the stalk or strig; as to strig currants, gooseberries, &c. ..."
4. A Dictionary of the Kentish Dialect and Provincialisms in Use in the County by William Douglas Parish, William Francis Shaw (1888)
"Now doan't 'ee put the cherry-strig in's mouth." strig (2) vb. To take the fruit
from off the stalk or strig; as to strig currants, gooseberries, &c. ..."
5. A Dictionary of the Kentish Dialect and Provincialisms in Use in the County by William Douglas Parish, William Francis Shaw, John White Masters (1887)
"strig (2) vb. To take the fruit from off the stalk or strig; as to strig currants,
... Will you help me strig these currants?" STRIKE [streik] (i) sb. ..."
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