SPage 854
- English Word Strike Definition To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.
- English Word Strike Definition To advance; to cause to go forward; -- used only in past participle.
- English Word Strike Definition To move; to advance; to proceed; to take a course; as, to strike into the fields.
- English Word Strike Definition To deliver a quick blow or thrust; to give blows.
- English Word Strike Definition To hit; to collide; to dush; to clash; as, a hammer strikes against the bell of a clock.
- English Word Strike Definition To sound by percussion, with blows, or as with blows; to be struck; as, the clock strikes.
- English Word Strike Definition To make an attack; to aim a blow.
- English Word Strike Definition To touch; to act by appulse.
- English Word Strike Definition To run upon a rock or bank; to be stranded; as, the ship struck in the night.
- English Word Strike Definition To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.
- 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.