Definition of strike

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Strike (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..

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Scare :: Scare (v. t.) To frighten; to strike with sudden fear; to alarm.
Whack :: Whack (v. i.) To strike anything with a smart blow.
Smite :: Smite (v. t.) To cause to strike; to use as an instrument in striking or hurling.
Firk :: Firk (v. t.) To beat; to strike; to chastise.
Pickaxe :: Pickaxe (n.) A pick with a point at one end, a transverse edge or blade at the other, and a handle inserted at the middle; a hammer with a flattened end for driving wedges and a pointed end for piercing as it strikes..
Lash :: Lash (v. t.) To strike forcibly and quickly, as with a lash; to beat, or beat upon, with a motion like that of a lash; as, a whale lashes the sea with his tail..
Knock :: Knock (v. t.) To strike for admittance; to rap upon, as a door..
Bloodstick :: Bloodstick (n.) A piece of hard wood loaded at one end with lead, and used to strike the fleam into the vein..
Martingal :: Martingal (n.) A lower stay of rope or chain for the jib boom or flying jib boom, fastened to, or reeved through, the dolphin striker. Also, the dolphin striker itself..
Slash :: Slash (v. i.) To strike violently and at random, esp. with an edged instrument; to lay about one indiscriminately with blows; to cut hastily and carelessly..
Gnash :: Gnash (v. i.) To grind or strike the teeth together.
Strike :: Strike (v. i.) To quit work in order to compel an increase, or prevent a reduction, of wages..
Toll :: Toll (v. t.) To strike, or to indicate by striking, as the hour; to ring a toll for; as, to toll a departed friend..
Butt :: Butt (v. t.) To strike by thrusting the head against; to strike with the head.
Strike :: Strike (n.) An old measure of four bushels.
Buffet :: Buffet (v. i.) To exercise or play at boxing; to strike; to smite; to strive; to contend.
Pose :: Pose (v. i.) To assume and maintain a studied attitude, with studied arrangement of drapery; to strike an attitude; to attitudinize; figuratively, to assume or affect a certain character; as, she poses as a prude..
Arms :: Arms (n.) Anything which a man takes in his hand in anger, to strike or assault another with; an aggressive weapon..
Quill :: Quill (n.) The plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments.
Clapper :: Clapper (n.) That which strikes or claps, as the tongue of a bell, or the piece of wood that strikes a mill hopper, etc. See Illust. of Bell..
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