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▪ I. sturt, n.1 Chiefly Sc.|stɜːt| Also 5, 7 sturte, 6 stourt. [Metathetic form of strut n.1] 1. Contention, violent quarrelling; contentious or violent behaviour. Usually associated in the context with strife, esp. in the set phrase sturt and strife.
[1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 3743 Ȝyf þou yn any strut, For Ire wundedyst a man, or hurt.] c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xliii. (Cecilia) 478 He sad til hire with sturt & schore: ‘til ydolis þu mak sacryfice.’ a1500Ratis Raving 3679 Oyss noght flityng, sturt, na stryf. 1500–20Dunbar Poems xxvi. 31 Than Yre come in with sturt and stryfe; His hand wes ay vpoun his knyfe. a1598D. Ferguson Sc. Prov. (1785) 28 Sturt pays nae debt. 1786Burns Nature's Law i, Let other heroes boast their scars, The marks of sturt and strife. 1831J. Wilson Noctes Ambr. (1856) III. 337 Goodwife—without a' sturt or strife, Bring ben the siller bowl wi' care. 1832Hogg Queer Bk. 15 And I will thrill thy frigid blood With marvellous tale of sturt and strife. 1881Blackw. Mag. Mar. 399/1 He who..amid all the sturt and strife of his manhood, had composed a system of philosophy. 1891R. Ford Thistledown xviii. 326, I liv'd aw my deyes, but sturt or strife. †2. Disquiet of the mind, vexation of the spirit.
1513Douglas æneis ii. ii. 59 Dolorous my life I led in sturt and pane. Ibid. iv. Prol. 89 Lo, quhow from grace to all mischeif they flit, Fra weill to sturt, fra pane to deid! 1560Rolland Seven Sages 83 The Emprice..For verie sturt in hir minde was richt wo. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. I. v. 279 In presoun, throw sturt and dule, he dies. a1627A. Craig Pilgr. & Heremite (1873) 8 But where thou wouldst seeme to salue all my sore, And by thy strait statutes to stay all my sturt. 1681S. Colvil Whigs Supplic. (1751) 130 Fighting is a fool thing, What doth it else but sturt and dool bring. 1724Ramsay Tea-t. Misc. (1733) I. 99 My heart take neither sturt nor wae For Meg, for Marjory or Mause, But be thou blyth. ▪ II. † sturt, n.2 Obs. rare—1. [? var. of start n.2] A sudden impulse. Hence sturt v.2 intr., to start suddenly.
1674N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 129 When we give a dartingness to outcasts, we betemme them but one or a few springs, which by often sturts and flashes of motion, cracker⁓like, weaken themselves. Ibid. 139, 140 A body having bequeath'd it one degree of sturt or yerk,..may upon taking in ten or twenty degrees of the same, in the next, sturt to many atoms in length. ▪ III. sturt, n.3 Tin-mining.|stɜːt| [Perh. identical with prec.] (See quots.)
1849–50Weale Dict. Terms, Sturt, in mining: when a tributer takes a pitch at a higher tribute, and cuts a course of ore, he sometimes gets two, three, or five hundred pounds in two months: this great profit is called ‘a sturt’. 1860Eng. & For. Mining Gloss. 25 [Cornw. terms]. 1894Cornishman 19 Sept. (E.D.D.) A good ‘sturt’. At Levant mine, during the past month, tributers, who found a rich pocket of tin at the 278 f.m. level, have divided between them {pstlg}101 13s. 4d. ▪ IV. † sturt, a. Sc. Obs. [? Belongs to sturt n.1] (See quot.)
1726R. Fleming Fulfilling Script. (ed. 5) Table of Scots Phrases, Sturt, turbulent, or contentious. ▪ V. sturt, v.1 Obs. exc. Sc.|stɜːt| [f. sturt n.1] 1. †a. intr. To contend, make trouble with. Obs.
c1395Plowman's Tale 868 Such beren yvell heven-kay They mowen..With trewe tillers sturte and stryve. b. trans. To attack, trouble, molest, disturb. Sc.
1513Douglas æneis vii. vi. 40, I..nevir wald ceis, Quhen thai wer chasit of thair native land, To sturt thame on the streme fra hand to hand. 1786Burns Twa Dogs 199 They mak enow themsels to vex them; An' ay the less they hae to sturt them, In like proportion, less will hurt them. 1892G. Stewart Shetl. Fireside Tales (ed. 2) 247 She could staand at da briest o' wir hoose an' skyle wir lum withoot ever sturtin' her. 2. intr. To be startled or frightened. Cf. start v. 5.
1786Burns Halloween xviii, He marches thro' amang the stacks, Tho' he was something sturtan. 1808Jamieson, Sturt, to startle, to be afraid. 1850in Ogilvie. ▪ VI. sturt, v.2 see sturt n.2 |