Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An instrument used to level off grain or other material in a measure.
- n. A foundry tool used to shape a mold in sand or loam.
- n. A tool for sharpening scythes.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A straight-edge used to sweep grain off level with the top of a measure when measuring grain.
- n. A wooden swingle for dressing flax.
- n. In carpentry and masonry, a pattern or template.
- n. In founding: A straight-edge used to remove superfluous sand to a level with the top of a flask after ramming the sand into it. Compare loam-board.
- n. A template or pattern used in sweeping patterns in sand or loam.
- n. In cutlery, a straight-edge fed with emery, and employed to grind the edges of knives arranged spirally on a cylinder.
- In founding, to sweep; form to a round surface by means of a templet or sweep.
Wiktionary
- n. A rod used to level grain etc. when being measured
- n. A tool for sharpening scythes
- n. An instrument used for smoothing the surface of a core.
- n. carpentry, masonry A templet; a pattern.
- n. An instrument used in dressing flax.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. An instrument to strike grain to a level with the measure; a strike.
- n. An instrument for whetting scythes; a rifle.
- n. (Founding) An instrument used for smoothing the surface of a core.
- n. (Carp. & Mason.) A templet; a pattern.
- n. Prov. Eng. An instrument used in dressing flax.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an implement for sharpening scythes
- n. a tool used in a foundry to shape a mold in sand
- n. a tool or rod used to level off grain or other granular material that is heaped in a measure
- v. level off with a strickle in a measuring container
- v. smooth with a strickle
Etymologies
- Middle English strikelle, perhaps from Old English stricel, teat, strickle; see streig- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“This mud pie is built up into the desired shape, supported by a metal base plate ( "strickle"), layer by painstaking layer.”
“According to Dr. Webster "It is probably accurate to say that many fish such as minnous, strickle backs and guppies are capable of the same intelectual feats as rats or mice”
“A strickle: a piece of wood used for striking off the surplus from a corn measure.”
The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire
“It would be superfluous to point out omissions like strickle, which would have helped explain struck measure (described under heaped measure, p. 165), or stylistic slips like sawed for sawn, so I shall control myself.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘strickle’.
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Pickle and such
Words that end like pickle. Listed here because they're funny (because they end like pickle).
pickle, sparkle, yokel, tinkle, fickle, prickle, trickle, circle, snorkel, ensnorkel, chuckle, buckle and 137 more...
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phrontistery-s
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sabaton, sabbatarian, sabbulonarium, sabelline, sabin, sable, sabliere, sabot, sabretache, sabulous, saburration, saccade and 1593 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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smoooth
satined, sleek, glossy, legato, uncrannied, suave, smoothen, polish, satiny, flowing, levigate, politic and 78 more...
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dann's words
just some nice words that i like.
beamish, snark, sundry, contrariwise, salsify, cephalopod, omphaloskepsis, grok, resistentialism, peristerophobia, aglet, ferrule and 125 more...
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What David Foster Wallace circled in ...
ablative, ablaut, abulia, acephalous, ACTH, adit, adumbrate, agrapha, ailanthus, aleatory, alfresco, algolagnia and 474 more...
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What David Foster Wallace Circled in ...
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ablative absolute, ablaut, abulia, acephalous, ACTH, adit, adumbrate, agrapha, aleatory, ailanthus, alfresco, algolagnia and 482 more...
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fbharjo's Words
jumelle, kef, kenspeckle, lautitious, essentic, pilpulistic, impavid, cicurant, clou, chrysostomic, miasma, teleology and 1625 more...
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The word collector
My collection of words that are intriguing, but don't fit my other lists.
snailery, aplasia, postulant, aigrette, caravel, frigate, capeskin, suffusion, schist, varlet, sepulchral, anisotropy and 317 more...
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hernesheir In Wales, a wooden hone shaped like a small cricket bat, used to sharpen scythe blades, was called a "ripe". Grades of sand and grit were used with mutton fat to put an edge on the blade suitable for the vegetation being cut - soft sand for hay, rough sand for corn, and fine pebbles for bracken. Over the border in Scotland, the strickle or ripe was called a straik. Source: British rural agricultural publication, The Countryman, Autumn 1957, p.571. Nov 5, 2009