strickle

English

Alternative forms

  • strikle, stritchel, stritchell, stritchill, strichell

Etymology

From Middle English strikile, strikelle, strikyll, from Old English stricel, equivalent to strick +‎ -le (diminutive suffix). Compare Middle Dutch strijkel, streekel, strekel.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈstrɪkl̩/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪkəl

Noun

strickle (plural strickles)

  1. A rod used to level off heaped grain etc. when being measured, or concrete after pouring.
  2. (husbandry) A tool for sharpening scythes, composed typically of a piece of wood smeared with grease and sand.
  3. (metallurgy) A bevel-edged finishing tool used for smoothing the surface of a mold, core, or mold in sand or loam.
  4. (carpentry, masonry) A template; a pattern.[1]
  5. An instrument used in dressing flax.

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Verb

strickle (third-person singular simple present strickles, present participle strickling, simple past and past participle strickled)

  1. (transitive) To level using a strickle.

References

  1. ^ “strickle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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