strike (strik)

[ Wing, cartnave and bushel, peck, strike ready [at] hand. Tu er, Husbandly Furniture, st. i. 2. A piece of wood used in the manufacture of pottery, in brickmaking, etc., to remove superHuous clay from a mold.-3. A puddlers' stirrer; a rabble.-41. A stanchion in a gate, palisade, railing, or the like. Stowe says "there were nine tombs of alabaster and marble, invironed with strikes of iron, in the choir." See preface to the "Chronicle of the Grey Friars of London." Piers Plowman's Crede (E. E. T. S.), Notes, p. 39. 5. In metal- working, a hook in a foundry to hoist the metal.-6. The direction or run of a bed or member of a stratified formation, especially with reference to the points of the compa . See bearing, 12, and cut under dip. The Devonian sandstones are exposed in rugged cliffs slightly oblique to their line of strike , along a coastline of ten miles in length, to the head of the bay [Gaspé]. Dawson, Geol. Hist. of Plants, p. 106. 7. An English dry measure, consisting regularly of two bushels. It was never in other than local use, IMG:content-2280.png:[blocks in formation] Jailer. What dowry has she? Daugh . Some two hundred bottles, And twenty strike of oats; but he'll ne'er have her. Fletcher ( and another ), Two Noble Kinsmen, v. 2. How many strike of pease would feed a hog fat against Chris tide? Marston, Antonio and Mellida, I., ii. 1. 8. A handful or bunch of flax, jute, or other fiber, either ready for heckling or after heckling; a strick. This pardoner hadde heer as yelow as wex, But smoot he it heng as doth a strike of flex. Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. Т., 1. 676. 9. In sugar- making and refining, the quantity of syrup emptied at one time into the coolers; also, the quantity of sugar boiled or crystallized at one time: as, to boil a strike; to run off a strike. The strike is now done, air is admitted to the pan, and The Century, XXXV. 114. the contents are run off into the "mixer." 10. In base - ball: ( a ) An unsucce ful attempt of the batter to hit the ball. (b) A ball so pitched as to pa over the home-plate, and considered by the umpire as one that the batter should have tried to strike.-11. In American bowl ing, a play by which one of the contestants knocks down all the pins with one bowl, entitling him to add to his score as many points as the number of the pins knocked down with the first two balls of his next play. Also called ten -strike. Compare sparel, n., 2.-12. A concerted or general quitting of work by a body of men or women for the purpose of coercing their employer in some way, as when higher wages or shorter hours are demanded, or a reduction of wages is resisted; a general refusal to work as a coercive measure. Compare lockout. Accounts at that time [1362] of strikes in the building trade are particularly numerous. English Gilds (E. E. T. S.), Int., p. cxliv. There have been times and incidents when the strike was the only court of appeals for the workingman, and the evil lay in the abuse of them and not in the use of them. Sci. Amer., N. S., LVII. 292. 13. Any unscrupulous attempt to extort money or to obtain other personal advantage by initiating an attack with the intention of being bought off, as by introducing a bill into a legislature, hostile to some moneyed interest, with the hope of being paid to let the matter drop. [Political slang, U. S.] -14. Full measure; especially, in brewing, full measure of malt: thus, ale of the first strike is that which has its full allowance of malt and is strong. Three hogsheads of ale of the first strike . Scott . 15. In coining, the whole amount struck at one time.-16. In type - founding, an imperfect matrix for type; the deeply sunken impre ion of the engraved character on a punch in a short and narrow bar of copper: so called because the punch is struck a hard blow with a hammer. Also known as unjustified matrix, or diwe. See type - founding. When the letter is perfect, it is driven into a piece of polished copper, called the drive or strike . This pa es to the justifier, who makes the width and depth of the faces uniform throughout the fount. Encyc. Brit ., XXIII. 699. 17. A metal piece which is inserted in a doorjamb, and against which the latch strikes as the door closes. It is beveled to permit the easy closing and self-latching of the door. Also called striker plate. 18. Same as stick3, 10.-19. In soap -making: ( a ) The general crystalline appearance of hard soaps, which is characteristic of soaps which retain the normal amount of water, and in which the saponification and separation have been complete. (b) The proper and characteristic marbling of well-made mottled soaps.By the strike, by measure not heaped up, but having what was above the level of the measure scraped off with a strike.-Strike of day, the dawn or break of day. If I was to speak till strike o' day. Dickens, Hard Times, ii. 4.