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- English Word Strike Definition To break forth; to commence suddenly; -- with into; as, to strike into reputation; to strike into a run.
- English Word Strike Definition To lower a flag, or colors, in token of respect, or to signify a surrender of a ship to an enemy.
- English Word Strike Definition To quit work in order to compel an increase, or prevent a reduction, of wages.
- English Word Strike Definition To become attached to something; -- said of the spat of oysters.
- English Word Strike Definition To steal money.
- English Word Strike Definition The act of striking.
- English Word Strike Definition An instrument with a straight edge for leveling a measure of grain, salt, and the like, scraping off what is above the level of the top; a strickle.
- English Word Strike Definition A bushel; four pecks.
- English Word Strike Definition An old measure of four bushels.
- English Word Strike Definition Fullness of measure; hence, excellence of quality.
- English Word Strike Definition An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.
- English Word Strike Definition The act of quitting work; specifically, such an act by a body of workmen, done as a means of enforcing compliance with demands made on their employer.
- English Word Strike Definition A puddler's stirrer.
- English Word Strike Definition The horizontal direction of the outcropping edges of tilted rocks; or, the direction of a horizontal line supposed to be drawn on the surface of a tilted stratum. It is at right angles to the dip.
- English Word Strike Definition The extortion of money, or the attempt to extort money, by threat of injury; blackmailing.
- English Word Striker Definition One who, or that which, strikes; specifically, a blacksmith's helper who wields the sledge.
- English Word Striker Definition A harpoon; also, a harpooner.
- English Word Striker Definition A wencher; a lewd man.
- English Word Striker Definition A workman who is on a strike.
- English Word Striker Definition A blackmailer in politics; also, one whose political influence can be bought.
- English Word Striking Definition of Strike
- English Word Striking Definition a. & n. from Strike, v.
- English Word Striking Definition Affecting with strong emotions; surprising; forcible; impressive; very noticeable; as, a striking representation or image; a striking resemblance.
- English Word Strikle Definition See Strickle.
- English Word String Definition A small cord, a line, a twine, or a slender strip of leather, or other substance, used for binding together, fastening, or tying things; a cord, larger than a thread and smaller than a rope; as, a shoe string; a bonnet string; a silken string.
- English Word String Definition A thread or cord on which a number of objects or parts are strung or arranged in close and orderly succession; hence, a line or series of things arranged on a thread, or as if so arranged; a succession; a concatenation; a chain; as, a string of shells or beads; a string of dried apples; a string of houses; a string of arguments.
- English Word String Definition A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together.
- English Word String Definition The cord of a musical instrument, as of a piano, harp, or violin; specifically (pl.), the stringed instruments of an orchestra, in distinction from the wind instruments; as, the strings took up the theme.
- English Word String Definition The line or cord of a bow.
- English Word String Definition A fiber, as of a plant; a little, fibrous root.