straught

verb, adj — 3 senses

straught

verb

UK /stɹɔːt/

Etymology From Scots straucht (“stretched, stretched out”). Compare Scots strauchten (“to straighten”).

1

Scotland, Dialectal To stretch; make straight.

straught

adj

Etymology From Scots straucht (“stretched, stretched out”). Compare Scots strauchten (“to straighten”).

1

Scotland straight

straught

adj

Etymology From apheresis of distraught, bestraught, forstraught, etc.

1

Obsolete Insane, mad, distraught.

My ſcoles are not for unthriftes untaught, For frantick faitours half mad and half ſtraught; But my learning is of another degreec. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.
Therewith ran Goldry upon the King as one straught of his wits, bellowing as he ran, and gripped him by the right arm with both his hands, one at the wrist and one near the shoulder.1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 27:

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