strickle

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This mud pie is built up into the desired shape, supported by a metal base plate ( "strickle"), layer by painstaking layer.

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  1. noun An instrument used to level off grain or other material in a measure.
  2. noun A foundry tool used to shape a mold in sand or loam.
  3. noun A tool for sharpening scythes.

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  1. Middle English strikelle, perhaps from Old English stricel, teat, strickle; see streig- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also strikle, and assibilated stritchel, stritchell, stritchill, strichell; from Middle English strikile, strykylle (= Middle Dutch strijckel, streekel, strekel), a strickle; diminutive of strick.
 

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