Word Meanings - STRAKE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

imp. of Strike. Spenser.

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• STRIKE
  Strucken ; p. pr. & vb. n. Striking. Struck is more commonly proceed, flow, AS. strican to go, proceed, akin to D. strijken to rub, stroke, strike, to move, go, G. streichen, OHG. strihhan, L. stringere to touch lightly, to graze, to strip off
• SPENSERIAN
  Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene."
• STRIKER
  1. One who, or that which, strikes; specifically, a blacksmith's helper who wieds the sledge. 2. A harpoon; also, a harpooner. Wherever we come to an anchor, we always send out our strikers, and put out hooks and lines overboard, to try
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
• OVERSTRIKE
  To strike beyond.
• THUNDERSTRIKE
  1. To strike, blast, or injure by, or as by, lightning. Sir P. Sidney. 2. To astonish, or strike dumb, as with something terrible; -- rarely used except in the past participle. drove before him, thunderstruck. Milton.
• TEN-STRIKE
  A knocking down of all ten pins at one delivery of the ball. 2. Any quick, decisive stroke or act.
• OUTSTRIKE
  To strike out; to strike faster than. Shak.
• HEARTSTRIKE
  To affect at heart; to shock. "The seek to heartstrike us." B. Jonson.