different between stroud vs strout

English

Noun

stroud (plural strouds)

1. A kind of coarse wool used in blankets or for garment by Native Americans.

Related terms

• strouding

References

• stroud in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Tudors

English

Etymology

From Middle English. See etymology of the corresponding sense of strut.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st?a?t/

Verb

strout (third-person singular simple present strouts, present participle strouting, simple past and past participle strouted)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to project or swell out; to enlarge affectedly; to strut.
   • 1623, Francis Bacon, A Discourse of a War with Spain

     I will make a brief list of the particulars themselves in an historical truth , no ways strouted , nor made greater by language

2. (obsolete, intransitive) Alternative form of strut (“to swell; protuberate; bulge or spread out”)
   • 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion song 13 p. 222[1]:

     The daintie Clover growes (of grasse the onely silke)

     That makes each Udder strout abundantly with milke.

Anagrams

• Routts, Trotu?, Tutors, trouts, tutors