straught

• (UK) IPA^(key): /stɹɔːt/
• Rhymes: -ɔːt

From Middle English straught, from Old English streahte (first and third person singular preterite) and (ġe)streaht (past participle) of streċċan (“to stretch”). Doublet of straight. More at stretch.

straught

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of stretched

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

• straucht

straught (third-person singular simple present straughts, present participle straughting, simple past and past participle straughted)

1. (dialectal, chiefly Scotland) To stretch; make straight.

straught (comparative more straught, superlative most straught)

1. (Scotland) straight

From apheresis of distraught, bestraught, forstraught, etc.

straught (comparative more straught, superlative most straught)

1. (obsolete) Insane, mad, distraught.
   • c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.:

     My ſcoles are not for unthriftes untaught,
     For frantick faitours half mad and half ſtraught;
     But my learning is of another degree
     To taunt theim like liddrons, lewde as thei bee.

• Gathurst