strica

1 strica [ME strike], estrica, estricha [AN estriche, estrike < MLG, cf. AS strican], strike, form of (originally levelled) dry measure (typically equal to a bushel, but in some districts equal to half a bushel or to two or four bushels). 1185 debet dare iij ~as Rec. Templars 57; 1211 de 80 quarteriis 1 estrica de Waltham Pipe Wint. 86; 1222 M. filia A. tenet x acras et debet unam ~am avene Dom. S. Paul. 17; 1222 operabitur in gragia [sic] flagellando ~um et dimid' Ib. 56; 1278 estracos KR Ac 485/22 m. 1 (v. 2 calceta a); 1294 aperuit hostium grangie ‥ et ab inde asportavit quinque estrichas avene CourtR Hales II 277; 1296 cum una falsa straka vendit mercimonia sua ‥ deponatur mensura CourtR Wakefield I 246; 1305 iiij eskepp' viij estrik' farine avene IPM 119/1; 1306 item iiij quarteriis v strekis avenarum xj s xj d. qa Rec. Leic. I 245; 1307 in j quarterio ij estrecis avenarum ad prebendum equorum Ib. I 259; inveniet quarterium, bussellum, dimidium strikum, et unum equum MGL I 697; 1475 debet ~am seu modium frumenti et quarterium Wills Dublin 152.

2 †strica, f. l. a pryway, brisa, cloaca ‥ †strica [? l. forica], gumphus, latrina CathA.

3 strica v. stringere