Strike

A Dictionary of the First or Oldest Words in the English Language · 1862 · p. 5

, v. n. == go on, flow. Wright’s L. P. p. 44. AS. strican. See Laȝam on, i. 171, 397, and the Legend of St Katherine (Abbots ford Club), vv. 2514, 733, for exx. of this sense in Semi-Saxon —— v. a. == strike sail. K. Horn, 1043