[Loch-Ruadh] forgotten English

[Terry Sikes]

Madelina de Lindesay <lymadelina at earthlink.net> wrote:
streek - to strech or expand; to lay out a corpse; [from] Saxon "streccan". "Streeking-board", a board on which the limbs of the deceased are stretched out and composed.

composed?  I thought they decomposed.

Terence

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