string beans

pl. French beans, from the string-like fiber, stripped from them in preparing them for the table. *string-block, s . Music : A block in the wooden-frame pianoforte string, *streng, *stringe, *strong. s. [A. S. strenge (from its being strongly or tightly twisted), from strang =strong (q. v.); cogn. with Dut, streng , into which were driven the studs upon which the from streng strong; Icel.strengr ; Dan.stræng : Sw. sträng ; Ger.strang ; Gr.strang gale = a halter, from stranggos hard twisted.] I. Ordinary Language : 1. A small rope, line, twine, or cord; a strip of leather, or other like substance, for tying or fastening things. "I'll knit it up in silken strings ." Shakesp .: Two Gentlemen of Verona, ii. 7. 2. A piece of thread or the like, upon which anything is strung or filed; hence, a set of things strung or filed on a line. "I have caught two of these dark undermining vermin, and intend to make a string of them, in order to hang them."- Add is on : Spectator. 3. A succe ion of things following in a line. " Strings of camels were perpetually traversing the sandy track."- London Daily Telegraph . 4. Hence, a series of things connected or follow 3. A harpoon, also a harpooner. "Wherever we come to an anchor, we always send out our strikers , and put our hooks and lines overboard, to try for fish."-Dampier: Voyages (an. 1684). 4. A wencher. 5. A workman who is on strike. "When the train arrived with the men to supply the place of the strikers it was found that a large crowd had a embled outside the station."-London Daily Chronicle. II. Technically : 1. Forging : (1) A species of steam-hammer, striking in a manner similar to the trip-hammer, but operated directly from the engine, the cam-wheel being dispensed with. It may be adjusted either vertically or horizontally, or at any angle. (2) A hardened mold, or former, upon which a softened steel block is struck, to receive a concave impre ion from the striker. Swages are made in this way, the two portions receiving their grooves from a striker between them. [SWAGE, 8.] 2. Games : The player whose turn it is to strike the ball in cricket, lawn tennis, baseball, golf, billiards, . In lawn-tennis the player who first delivers the ball is called the server or striker-in, the other the striker-out.