Definition of strike

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Strike (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..

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Knock :: Knock (v. t.) To strike with something hard or heavy; to move by striking; to drive (a thing) against something; as, to knock a ball with a bat; to knock the head against a post; to knock a lamp off the table..
Touch :: Touch (v. t.) To strike; to manipulate; to play on; as, to touch an instrument of music..
Striped :: Stripe (v. t.) To strike; to lash.
Strike :: Strike (v. i.) To touch; to act by appulse.
Box :: Box (v. t.) To strike with the hand or fist, especially to strike on the ear, or on the side of the head..
Strike :: Strike (v. i.) To lower a flag, or colors, in token of respect, or to signify a surrender of a ship to an enemy..
Hammer :: Hammer (n.) That part of a clock which strikes upon the bell to indicate the hour.
Strike :: Strike (v. t.) To punish; to afflict; to smite.
Pound :: Pound (v. t.) To strike repeatedly with some heavy instrument; to beat.
Butt :: Butt (v. i.) To thrust the head forward; to strike by thrusting the head forward, as an ox or a ram. [See Butt, n.].
Afflict :: Afflict (v. t.) To strike or cast down; to overthrow.
Quill :: Quill (n.) The plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments.
Snick :: Snick (v. t.) To cut slightly; to strike, or strike off, as by cutting..
Racket :: Racket (v. t.) To strike with, or as with, a racket..
Percuss :: Percuss (v. i.) To strike or tap in an examination by percussion. See Percussion, 3..
Fancy :: Fancy (n.) Inclination; liking, formed by caprice rather than reason; as, to strike one's fancy; hence, the object of inclination or liking..
Splash :: Splash (v. i.) To strike and dash about water, mud, etc.; to dash in such a way as to spatter..
Smite :: Smite (v. t.) To strike; to inflict a blow upon with the hand, or with any instrument held in the hand, or with a missile thrown by the hand; as, to smite with the fist, with a rod, sword, spear, or stone..
Flint :: Flint (n.) A massive, somewhat impure variety of quartz, in color usually of a gray to brown or nearly black, breaking with a conchoidal fracture and sharp edge. It is very hard, and strikes fire with steel..
Hawk :: Hawk (v. i.) To make an attack while on the wing; to soar and strike like a hawk; -- generally with at; as, to hawk at flies..
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