stravage

present singular third person stravages · participle present stravaging · participle past stravaged · past stravaged

1. IrelandNorthern EnglandScotlandalternativeAlternative spelling of stravaig.

   That I should live to see the time when me only daughter stravages the roads and hides behind stones in the night with a soldier!

   1949, Drayton Mayrant, chapter 3, in The Running Thread, New York, N.Y.: Appleton-Century-Crofts, →OCLC, page 22

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   [A] real lady like you wouldn't go prying into what she's no call to, like that fine decked-out body, Duncombe's wife, which had best mind her own children, which it is a shame to see stravaging about the place!

   1876, Charlotte M[ary] Yonge, “The Drive to Backsworth”, in The Three Brides. […], volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 279

   In a way perhaps it's a pity, a good woman might have been the making of me, I might be sprawling in the sun now sucking my pipe and patting the bottoms of the third and fourth generation, looked up to and respected, wondering what there was for dinner, instead of stravaging the same old roads in all weathers, I was never much of a one for new ground.

   c. 1954–1955 (date written; published 1958), Samuel Beckett, “From an Abandoned Work”, in No’s Knife: Collected Shorter Prose 1945–1966, London: Calder and Boyars, published 1967, →OCLC, page 142

   With a robust understanding of the county's big players, and in-depth knowledge of topics such as planning, I stravaged into the world of regional journalism with something of a swagger.

   2017 November 26, Jamie Weir, “Final Edition: 2002–2017: KoS made a real difference”, in Chris Britcher, editor, Kent on Sunday, mid edition, number 792, Ashford, Kent: Archant Print, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 18, column 3

plural stravages

1. IrelandNorthern EnglandScotlandalternativeAlternative spelling of stravaig.

   There's passages pretty near all under and round this city, to them who knows them. I've gone a dark stravage into pretty near every one first and last.

   1935, John Masefield, chapter III, in The Box of Delights: Or When the Wolves were Running, London: William Heinemann, published 1964, →OCLC, page 75