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English
Etymology
Compare Latin strix, strigs (“a screech owl”).
Noun
strich (plural striches)
- (obsolete) An owl.
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:The lether-winged Bat, dayes enimy, / The ruefull Strich, still waiting on the bere, / The Whistler shrill, that who so heares, doth dy […]
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German
Pronunciation
Verb
strich
- first/third-person singular preterite of streichen