streyne

And the next news is that these cooks, of whom Chaucer wrote propheticallyThese cookès, how they stampe and streyne and grinde,

VI. On a School of English 1920

’ I am glad that memory flew just here to the word of Portia’s: for it carries me on to a wise page of Dr Corson’s, and a passage in which, protesting against the philologers who cram our children’s handbooks with irrelevant information that but obscures what Chaucer or Shakespeare mean, he breaks out in Chaucer’s own words: Thise cookes! how they stampe and streyne and grind,

IV. Children’s Reading (II) 1920

"whanne he sitteth at privy he schal not streyne him-silf to harde."

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 4 1993