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 282 Strammer. A big lie, a large thing, a tall stout woman. " What a strammer ! " Stramining. Telling "awful lies," telling "thunder- ing '^ lies. Strange, Half mad, delirious, " talking quite strange.'' Strap, or Strop. A bit of string. A small cord. (Strop, Armoric. Borlase.) Strat. To abort. "Stratveal." c. Straw mot. A single straw. Stream of tin. Loose stones containing tin "when found together in great numbers making one continued course from one to ten feet deep, which we call a stream." Borlase' s Nat Histy, Streams. Strains, as " streams of music." Streamer. A tinner who works in a stream work, searching for, or washing tin ore. Streaming. Washing tin-ore in a stream work ; also, dipping washed linen in the "blueing" water, or rinsing it in clean water. Stream-work. A place for the raising and washing of surface or alluvial tin ore. Stretcher. An exaggeration, a lie. "What a stret- cher ! " Strike, v. To anoint, to apply any unguent by smearing it on a diseased surface. Strike. Eight gallons measure, or Winchester bushel.