Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A flat piece of wood for leveling grain in a measure; a strickle.
- noun A bushel measure.
- noun A handful or bunch of flax, jute, or other fiber, heckled and sorted, or ready to be heckled.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A bunch of hackled flax prepared for drawing into slivers.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A bunch of
hackled flax prepared fordrawing intoslivers .
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Examples
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An 3 rocket fires in peshawar city from micheni to hasan garhi and kohat road ... police calls strick searching in city, starts search operation against militants.
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I said the "strick" would keep, and I had climbed hill enough for one night.
Roughing It Mark Twain 1872
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I said the "strick" would keep, and I had climbed hill enough for one night.
Roughing It, Part 5. Mark Twain 1872
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I said the "strick" would keep, and I had climbed hill enough for one night.
Roughing It 1871
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We need strick limits on the private sale of phased array energy-beam weaponry.
Klingon Control 2009
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We need strick limits on the private sale of phased array energy-beam weaponry.
Klingon Control 2009
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I'm not sure if the Arizona state regs are as strick, but it seems to me if I have to show all those to get my card, showing a valid (real) driver's license is pretty good proof (granted, not fool-proof).
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Sometimes gun ranges have strick rules for hunter safety.
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They want to eliminate corruption and instil strick Islamic rule.
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No, strick that – make that 4, I had forgotten Newt ran a few cycles back didn't he?
Texas Gov. Rick Perry pulled out of conservative straw poll 2009
ruzuzu commented on the word strick
"1. A flat piece of wood for leveling grain in a measure; a strickle.
2. A bushel measure.
3. A handful or bunch of flax, jute, or other fiber, heckled and sorted, or ready to be heckled."
--Century Dictionary
See hatchel.
September 21, 2010