strickle
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English
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Etymology
From Middle English strikile, strikelle, strikyll, from Old English stricel, equivalent to strick + -le (diminutive suffix). Compare Middle Dutch strijkel, streekel, strekel.
Pronunciation
Noun
strickle (plural strickles)
- A rod used to level off heaped grain etc. when being measured, or concrete after pouring.
- (husbandry) A tool for sharpening scythes, composed typically of a piece of wood smeared with grease and sand.
- (metallurgy) A bevel-edged finishing tool used for smoothing the surface of a mold, core, or mold in sand or loam.
- (carpentry, masonry) A template; a pattern.
- An instrument used in dressing flax.
Synonyms
Translations
a rod for levelling
Verb
strickle (third-person singular simple present strickles, present participle strickling, simple past and past participle strickled)
- (transitive) To level using a strickle.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “strickle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)