Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An instrument used to level off grain or other material in a measure.
- noun A foundry tool used to shape a mold in sand or loam.
- noun A tool for sharpening scythes.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A straight-edge used to sweep grain off level with the top of a measure when measuring grain.
- noun A wooden swingle for dressing flax.
- noun In carpentry and masonry, a pattern or template.
- noun In founding: A straight-edge used to remove superfluous sand to a level with the top of a flask after ramming the sand into it. Compare
loam-board . - noun A template or pattern used in sweeping patterns in sand or loam.
- noun In cutlery, a straight-edge fed with emery, and employed to grind the edges of knives arranged spirally on a cylinder.
- In founding, to sweep; form to a round surface by means of a templet or sweep.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An instrument to strike grain to a level with the measure; a strike.
- noun An instrument for whetting scythes; a rifle.
- noun (Founding) An instrument used for smoothing the surface of a core.
- noun (Carp. & Mason.) A templet; a pattern.
- noun Prov. Eng. An instrument used in dressing flax.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
rod used tolevel grain etc. when being measured - noun A tool for
sharpening scythes - noun An instrument used for smoothing the surface of a core.
- noun carpentry, masonry A
templet ; apattern . - noun An instrument used in dressing
flax .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an implement for sharpening scythes
- noun a tool used in a foundry to shape a mold in sand
- noun a tool or rod used to level off grain or other granular material that is heaped in a measure
- verb level off with a strickle in a measuring container
- verb smooth with a strickle
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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This mud pie is built up into the desired shape, supported by a metal base plate ( "strickle"), layer by painstaking layer.
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According to Dr. Webster "It is probably accurate to say that many fish such as minnous, strickle backs and guppies are capable of the same intelectual feats as rats or mice"
Fish also Clever!!!! 2008
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A strickle: a piece of wood used for striking off the surplus from a corn measure.
The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire James Jennings
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It would be superfluous to point out omissions like strickle, which would have helped explain struck measure (described under heaped measure, p. 165), or stylistic slips like sawed for sawn, so I shall control myself.
hernesheir commented on the word strickle
In Wales, a wooden hone shaped like a small cricket bat, used to sharpen scythe blades, was called a "ripe". Grades of sand and grit were used with mutton fat to put an edge on the blade suitable for the vegetation being cut - soft sand for hay, rough sand for corn, and fine pebbles for bracken. Over the border in Scotland, the strickle or ripe was called a straik. Source: British rural agricultural publication, The Countryman, Autumn 1957, p.571.
November 5, 2009
qms commented on the word strickle
The crofter measures bushel and peck
So landlord gets no extra speck.
If the grain is too mickle
He smites with his strickle
Like claymore through a sassenach neck.
December 9, 2014
bilby commented on the word strickle
Probably the origin of trickle.
December 12, 2018