stravage

verb

1. (Ireland, Northern-England, Scotland, alt-of, alternative)Alternative spelling of stravaig.

   “[A] real lady like you wouldn't go prying into what she's no call to, like that fine decked-out body, Duncombe's wife, which had best mind her own children, which it is a shame to see stravaging about the place!”

   “That I should live to see the time when me only daughter stravages the roads and hides behind stones in the night with a soldier!”

   “In a way perhaps it's a pity, a good woman might have been the making of me, I might be sprawling in the sun now sucking my pipe and patting the bottoms of the third and fourth generation, looked up to and respected, wondering what there was for dinner, instead of stravaging the same old roads in all weathers, I was never much of a one for new ground.”

   “With a robust understanding of the county's big players, and in-depth knowledge of topics such as planning, I stravaged into the world of regional journalism with something of a swagger.”

noun

1. (Ireland, Northern-England, Scotland, alt-of, alternative)Alternative spelling of stravaig.

   “There's passages pretty near all under and round this city, to them who knows them. I've gone a dark stravage into pretty near every one first and last.”