(v. t.) To touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or
with an instrument; to smite; to give a blow to, either with the hand
or with any instrument or missile.
(v. t.) To come in collision with; to strike against; as, a
bullet struck him; the wave struck the boat amidships; the ship struck
a reef.
(v. t.) To give, as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a
force to; to dash; to cast.
(v. t.) To stamp or impress with a stroke; to coin; as, to
strike coin from metal: to strike dollars at the mint.
(v. t.) To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate; to set in
the earth; as, a tree strikes its roots deep.
(v. t.) To punish; to afflict; to smite.
(v. t.) To cause to sound by one or more beats; to indicate or
notify by audible strokes; as, the clock strikes twelve; the drums
strike up a march.
(v. t.) To lower; to let or take down; to remove; as, to strike
sail; to strike a flag or an ensign, as in token of surrender; to
strike a yard or a topmast in a gale; to strike a tent; to strike the
centering of an arch.
(v. t.) To make a sudden impression upon, as by a blow; to
affect sensibly with some strong emotion; as, to strike the mind, with
surprise; to strike one with wonder, alarm, dread, or horror.
(v. t.) To affect in some particular manner by a sudden
impression or impulse; as, the plan proposed strikes me favorably; to
strike one dead or blind.
(v. t.) To cause or produce by a stroke, or suddenly, as by a
stroke; as, to strike a light.
(v. t.) To cause to ignite; as, to strike a match.
(v. t.) To make and ratify; as, to strike a bargain.
(v. t.) To take forcibly or fraudulently; as, to strike money.
(v. t.) To level, as a measure of grain, salt, or the like, by
scraping off with a straight instrument what is above the level of the
top.
(v. t.) To cut off, as a mortar joint, even with the face of the
wall, or inward at a slight angle.
(v. t.) To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly; as, my eye struck
a strange word; they soon struck the trail.
(v. t.) To borrow money of; to make a demand upon; as, he struck
a friend for five dollars.
(v. t.) To lade into a cooler, as a liquor.
(v. t.) To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.
(v. t.) To advance; to cause to go forward; -- used only in past
participle.
(v. i.) To move; to advance; to proceed; to take a course; as,
to strike into the fields.
(v. i.) To deliver a quick blow or thrust; to give blows.
(v. i.) To hit; to collide; to dush; to clash; as, a hammer
strikes against the bell of a clock.
(v. i.) To sound by percussion, with blows, or as with blows; to
be struck; as, the clock strikes.
(v. i.) To make an attack; to aim a blow.
(v. i.) To touch; to act by appulse.
(v. i.) To run upon a rock or bank; to be stranded; as, the ship
struck in the night.
(v. i.) To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to
penetrate.
(v. i.) To break forth; to commence suddenly; -- with into; as,
to strike into reputation; to strike into a run.
(v. i.) To lower a flag, or colors, in token of respect, or to
signify a surrender of a ship to an enemy.
(v. i.) To quit work in order to compel an increase, or prevent
a reduction, of wages.
(v. i.) To become attached to something; -- said of the spat of
oysters.
(v. i.) To steal money.
(n.) The act of striking.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A bushel; four pecks.
(n.) An old measure of four bushels.
(n.) Fullness of measure; hence, excellence of quality.
(n.) An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A puddler's stirrer.
(n.) 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.
(n.) The extortion of money, or the attempt to extort money, by
threat of injury; blackmailing.
