strike
verb transitive[G., to pass, move or ramble, to depart, to touch, to stroke, to glide or glance over, to lower or strike, as sails, to curry; L., to sweep together, to spread, as a plaster, to play on a violin, to card, as wool, to strike or whip, as with a rod; a stroke, stripe or lash.]
pret. struck; pp. struck and stricken; but struck is in the most common use. Strook is wholly obsolete.
strike
To touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or an instrument; to give a blow to, either with the open hand, the fist, a stick, club or whip, or with a pointed instrument, or with a ball or an arrow discharged. An arrow struck the shield; a ball strikes a ship between wind and water. He at Philippi kept his sword een like a dancer, while I struck the lean and wrinkled Cassius.
strike
To dash; to throw with a quick motion. They shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side-posts. Exodus 12:7.
strike
To stamp; to impress; to coin; as, to strike coin at the mint; to strike dollars or sovereigns; also, to print; as, to strike five hundred copies of a book.
strike
To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate; as, a tree strikes its root deep.
strike
To punish; to afflict; as smite is also used. To punish the just is not good, nor to strike princes for equity. Proverbs 17:26.
strike
To cause to sound; to notify by sound; as, the clock strikes twelve; the drums strike up a march.
strike
To run upon; to be stranded. The ship struck at twelve, and remained fast.
strike
To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate. Now and then a beam of wit or passion strikes through the obscurity of the poem.
strike
To lower a flag or colors in token of respect, or to signify a surrender of the ship to an enemy.
strike
To break forth; as, to strike into reputation. To strike in, to enter suddenly; also, to recede from the surface, as an eruption; to disappear. To strike in with, to conform to; to suit itself to; to join with at once. To strike out, to wander; to make a sudden excursion; as, to strike out into an irregular course of life. To strike, among workmen in manufactories, in England, is to quit work I a body or by combination, in order to compel their employers to raise their wages.
strike
nounAn instrument with a straight edge for leveling a measure of grain, salt and the like, for scraping off what is above the level of the top.
strike
A bushel; four pecks.
strike
A measure of four bushels or half a quarter. Strike of flax, a handful that may be hackled at once.