strike 
of the wrist. 39. To put (fish) in a strike- 
barrel. 40. In electroplating, to produce the 
beginning of a deposit of metal upon, as on a 
plato or other article of metal placed in the 
electroplating solution. The work is said to bo 
HI, !/. as soon as a uniform film of deposited 
metal distinctly appears upon its surface. 
41. In color-making and di/i-int/, to affect (a 
coloring matter) so as to obtain the desired 
precipitation of color in the vat or on the fabric 
by the addition of the proper color-producing 
chemical. See color-striker. 
A simpler method of dyeing by means of bichromates 
is also given, . . . by which the logwood is struck of an in- 
tense black and fixed. 
O'Neill, Dyeing and Calico Printing, p. 86. 
42. In electric lighting, to produce (the arc) by 
parting the carbons.-A struck battle*, a hard- 
fought battle. 
Ten struck battles 
I suck'd these honour'd scars from, and all Roman. 
Fletcher, Bonduca, i. 1. 
Strike me luck, strike me lucky, a familiar expression 
used in making a bargain, derived from the old custom of 
striking hands together in ratification of the bargain, the 
buyer leaving in the hand of the seller an earnest-penny. 
But if that 's all you stand upon, 
Here, strike me hick, it shall be done. 
S. Butler, Hudibras, II. i. 540. 
Striking the fiars. See far, 2. Striking-up press. 
See prasi. Struck Jury. Ker/uru. -To strike a bal- 
ance, to compare the summations on both sides of an ac- 
count, in order to ascertain the amount due by either party 
to the other. To strike a center or centering, in arch. 
See enOtHnffi.To strike a docket. See docket. To 
Strike a lead, (a) In mining, to light on a lode or vein 
of metal. (!>) To enter on any undertaking that proves 
successful. To strike all of a heap. See heap, To 
strike an answer (or other pleading), to strike it out 
as improper or insufficient. (Local, U. S.J To Strike 
down, (a) To prostrate by a blow ; fell. (6) In fisheries, 
to head up and stow away barrels of, as flsh. To strike 
Ore. See fire. To strike from, to remove with or as 
with a blow or stroke : as, to strike a name/rom a list. 
Among the Arabians they that were taken in adultery 
had their heads stricken from their bodies. 
Homilies, Serm. against Adultery, p. 120. 
To strike hands. See hand. To strike off. (a) See 
def. 9. (6) (1) To cancel ; deduct : as, to strike of the in- 
terest of a debt. (2) To separate or remove by a blow or 
stroke : as, to strike off what is superfluous or injurious. 
Ffroni thense we entred in to the gardeyn, and visited 
the placa wher oursavyor was takyn and where Seynt 
Petir Stroke of Malcus eere. 
Torkimjton, Diarie of Eng. Travel], p. 29. 
(3) To print : as, to strike of a thousand copies of a book. 
To strike piL see oil.lo strike out. (a) To pro- 
duce by collision, as by blows or strokes : as, to strike old 
sparks with steel. 
My pride struck out new sparkles of her own. 
Dryden, Hind and Panther, 1. 75. 
(6) See def. 9. (c) To plan quickly or for fin emergency ; 
devise ; invent ; contrive : as, to strike out a new plan of 
finance, (d) In baseball, to put out, as the pitcher does 
the batter when the latter is unable in a certain number 
of trials to hit the ball : as, he struck out three men in 
succession. To strike root, sail, soundings, tally. 
See the nouns. To Strike up. (a) To begin to play or 
sing : as, to strike up a tune. 
Strike up our drums, to find this danger out. 
Shak., K. John, v. 2. 179. 
(6t) To send up ; give out. 
Let the court not be paved, for that striketh up a great 
heat in summer, and much cold in winter. 
Bacon, Building (ed. 1887). 
(c) To enter upon by mutual agreement; begin to culti- 
vate : as, to strike up an acquaintance with somebody. 
She [Mme. de Souza] charmed and delighted me, and we 
struck up an intimacy without further delay. 
Mme. D'Arblay, Diary, IV. 174. 
strike (strik), n. [< ME. strike, stric, strek, 
streek (= LG. striek) ; < strike, .] 1. A wooden 
implement with a straight edge for leveling a 
measure of grain, salt, etc., by striking off what 
is above the level of the top; a strickle. 
Wing, cartnave and bushel, peck, strike ready [at] hand. 
Tusser, Husbandly Furniture, st. i. 
2. A piece of wood used in the manufacture of 
pottery, in brickmaking, etc., to remove super- 
fluous clay from a mold. 3. A puddlers' stir- 
rer; a rabble. 4f. A stanchion in a gate, pali- 
sade, 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, espe- 
cially with reference to the points of the com- 
pass. See bearing, 12, and cut under dip. 
The Devonian sandstones . . . are exposed in rugged 
cliffs slightly oblique to their line of strike, along a coast- 
line of ten miles in length, to the head of the bay [Qaspe]. 
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. 
5993 
and varied in different localities from half a hnslu'1 1., four 
bushels. 
He selleth all the malt or corn for the best, when there 
be but two strikes at the best in his sack. 
Latimer, Misc. Sel. 
Jailer. What dowry has she? 
Dautjh. Some two hundred bottles, 
And twenty strike of oats ; but he'll ne'er have her. 
n-irlier (and another), Two Noble Kinsmen, v. _'. 
Mow many strike of pease would feed a hog fat against 
Christide? Marston, Antonio and Mellida, I., ii. 1. 
8. A handful or bunch of flax, jute, or other 
fiber, either ready for heckling or after heck- 
ling ; a striek. 
This pardoner hadde heer as yelow as wux, 
But smoothe it heng as doth a strike of flux. 
Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. T., 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 contents are run otf into the "mixer." 
The Century, XXXV. 114. 
10. Inbase-ball: (a) An unsuccessful attempt of 
the batter to hit the ball, (fc) A ball so pitched 
as to pass 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 balls with one bowl, en- 
titling 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 spare 1 , n., 2. 12. A con- 
certed 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 workingraan, 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 initiat- 
ing 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 allow- 
ance 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 ma- 
trix for type; the deeply sunken impression 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 drive. See 
type-fo u nding. 
When the letter is perfect, it is driven into a piece of 
polished copper, called the drive or strike. This passes 
to the justifier, who makes the width and depth of the 
faces uniform throughout the fount. 
Encyc. Brit., XXIIL 699. 
17. A metal piece which is inserted in a door- 
jamb, 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 stick 3 , 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. (6) The proper and character- 
istic marbling of well-made mottled soaps. 
By the strike, by measure not heaped up, but having 
wnat 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, a 4. 
strike-a-light (strik'a-lit"), n. A piece of 
flint trimmed into the'shape of a gun-flint, but 
somewhat larger, used with pyrites or steel for 
procuring fire from the sparks. Such implements 
have been frequently found among prehistoric relics. 
They have been used from remote ages, and are still man- 
ufactured and sold for that purpose. 
Another strike-a-light which I lately bought in a stall 
at Treves is about 2 inches long by 13 broad, and is made 
from a flat flake, trimmed to a nearly square edge at the 
butt-end, and to a very flat arc at the point. 
Evans, Ancient Stone Implements of Great Britain, p. 283. 
strikingness 
strike-block (strik'blok), //. In <///,., a plane 
shorter than a jointer, used for shoot .ing a short 
joint. 
Strike-fault (strik'falt), n. In ijcul., a fault 
running in the same general direction as the 
strike of the si nil a u ln-re it Od 
Strike-or-Sllent (stnk'ov-M lent), . In hurul., 
a piece which >cts the striking-media ni.-m of a 
clock in or out of action, i'.. II. hnii/lit. 
strike-pan (strik'pan), n. In .SHI/'"'-""""'.'-. 
same as teaclie or teaeke-fa*, 
Strike-pay (strik'pa), n. An allowance paid 
by a trades-union to men on strike. 
In one memorable case, at least, a great i tii]il'0< r . . . 
himself nave tlri/ce pay to his own men, when, under a 
sense of social duty, they left his works empty 
Nineteenth Century, XX \ 
Strike-plate (strik'plat), n. The keeper for a 
beveled latch-bolt, against which it strikes so as 
to snap shut automatically. Car-Builder's I>i< '. 
striker (stri'ker), n. [< strike + -erl.] 1. One 
who strikes, in any sense of the verb /< il.-< . 
Specifically (at) A robber. 
I am joined with no foot-land rakers, no long-staff six- 
penny strikers. Shak., 1 Hen. IV., il. 1. 82. 
(6) A workman who with others quits work in order to co- 
erce their employer to accede to their demands. 
The method employed by the Strikers in this country, 
during the past ten years, and more especially in their re- 
cent strikes, is most unreasonable, violent, as well as dis- 
astrous in its results. If. A. Rev., CXLII. 602. 
(c) One who seeks to effect a strike, in sense 13. (Polilii ;il 
slang, U.S.] 
If he can elect such a ticket even in Virginia alone, he 
will take the field after election as a striker, and will offer 
his electoral votes to whichever candidate will give the 
highest terms. The Nation, Sept. 6, 1883, p. 200. 
(d) In the United States army, a soldier detailed to act as 
an officer's servant. See strike, v. i., 10. (et) A wencher. 
Massinger. (/t) A harpooner. 
Where-ever we come to an anchor, we always send out 
our strikers, and put our hooks and lines overboard to try 
for flsh. Dumpier, Voyages, I. us. 
(.<;) In the hardware districts of England, a workman who 
manages the flre, heats the steel, and assists the forger. 
(K) An assistant or inferior shipwright, (i) A man em- 
ployed to strike off the superfluous quantity of grain, salt, 
etc., from the top of a measure. 
2. That which strikes. Specifically (o) A species 
of tilt-hammer operated directly from the engine. (6) A 
hardened mold upon which a softened steel block is struck 
to receive a concave impression, (c) The hammer of a gun, 
the stroke of which fires the piece, (d) An automatic ap- 
paratus which regulates the descent, at the pioper time 
and place, of the ruling-pens of a paper-ruling machine. 
(e) Tne lever which puts a machine into motion. {Eng. j 
3. In ornith., a tern or sea-swallow. [Local, 
U.S.] 4. In the menhaden-fishery: (a) The 
man who manages the striker-boat. A vessel usu- 
ally has two striker-boats, with one man in each ; these 
row close to the school of flsh, observe its course, signal the 
Surse-crew to set the seine, and drive the fish in the desired 
irection with pebbles which they carry in the boats. 
(6) A green hand who works at low wages 
while learning the business, but is one of the 
crew of a vessel. 
Striker-arm (stri'ker-arm), n. A seat-arm. 
Car-Builder's Diet. 
striker-boat (stri'ker-bot). . In the menha- 
den-fishery, the striker's boat. See striker, 4 (a). 
striker-out (stri'k6r-ouf), n. In lawn-tennis, 
the player who receives, and if possible re- 
turns, the ball when first served. 
It now becomes the duty of the adversary, called the 
striker-out, to return the ball by striking it with his racket 
in such a manner that it shall pass back over the net to 
the service side. Encyc. Brit,, XXIII. 179. 
Striker-plate (stri'ker-plat), n. Same as strike, 
striking (stri'king), H. [Verbal n. of strike, v.} 
1. The removal of the center upon which an 
arch has been built. See striking-plate. 2. 
The propagation of plants by cuttings or slips. 
Striking (stri'king), p. a. Standing out prom- 
inently and conspicuously, so as strongly to 
impress the eye or the mind; prominent; 
notable; impressive; remarkable; surprising: 
as, a striking resemblance ; a striking remark. 
The most striking characteristic of the poetry of Milton 
is the extreme remoteness of the associations by means of 
which it acts on the reader. Macaulay, Milton. 
striking-beam (stri'king-bem), . A cylindri- 
cal horse on which hides, when removed from 
the tanning-liquor, are placed. While drying 
they are struck or scraped from time to time. 
strikingly (stri'king-li), adr. In a striking 
manner; in such a manner as to surprise or 
impress; forcibly; impressively. 
The force of many strikingly poetic passages has been 
weakened or unperceived, because their origin was un- 
known, unexplored, or misunderstood. 
T. Warton, Pref. to Milton's Smaller Poems. 
strikingness (stri'king-nes), n. Striking char- 
acter or quality. 
