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stravage

stravage is the alternative spelling of stravaig.

Meaning of stravaig

Verb

stravaig (third-person singular simple present stravaigs, present participle stravaiging, simple past and past participle stravaiged)

  1. (Ireland, Northern England, Scotland, transitive) To stroll or wander aimlessly on (a road, etc.); to ramble.
    • [I]n them days, you see the people used to be hanged outside o' the town, […] [I]n them days they did not attind to the comforts o' the people at all, but put them into a cart, all as one as a conthrairy pig goin' to the market, and stravaiged them through the town to the gallows, that was full...[1834, Samuel Lover, “The Curse of Kishogue”, in Legends and Stories of Ireland (Second Series), London: Baldwin and Cradock, […]; and sold by W. F. Wakeman, […], →OCLC, page 314
  2. (Ireland, Northern England, Scotland, intransitive) To stroll or wander; to ramble, to roam.
    • Dear gudeman, what has put it i'your head that our bairn stravaigs i'the night-time?1818, James Hogg, chapter I, in The Brownie of Bodsbeck; and Other Tales. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for William Blackwood, […]; London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 7
    Synonyms:
    amble, gallivant, saunter
  3. (Ireland, Northern England, Scotland, figuratively, intransitive) Of a river, road, etc.: to meander, to wind.
    • Down the main street goes the road, but a path stravaiges by fields and along the grey palings of Warren Manor.1928, C[atherine] A[my] Dawson Scott, Oh! Foolish Kitty, London: Selwyn & Blount, →OCLC, pages 164–165

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Forms of stravage

Verb
third-person singular presentstravages
present participlestravaging
past participlestravaged
paststravaged
Noun
pluralstravages

Questions about stravage

What is stravage the alternative spelling of?
Stravage is the alternative spelling of stravaig.

Words near stravage in the dictionary

  1. Strausser
  2. Straussers
  3. Straussian
  4. Straussianism
  5. Straussians
  6. stravage
  7. stravaged
  8. stravages
  9. stravaging
  10. stravaig
  11. stravaige

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