Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Middle English form of
strain .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete See
strene .
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Examples
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With the curent mortgage loan debacles and wall streen shenanigans, it seems apropos.
McCain Misspeaks on Iran, Al Qaeda - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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` A swypit my hoosie clean the streen, my winsome laidie. '
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"Man, Aleck," says Sandy, when we were a 'on the green juist takin' a look roond aboot's, "it looks juist like the streen that you sat up 'on that very tree there, an' pappit Gairner Winton wi 'oslins that you'd stealt ooten his ain gairden.
My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond
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