outstrike
English
Etymology
Verb
outstrike (third-person singular simple present outstrikes, present participle outstriking, simple past outstruck, past participle outstruck or outstricken)
- (transitive) To strike faster or harder than.
- c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vi]:
- […] This blows my heart:
If swift thought break it not, a swifter mean
Shall outstrike thought: but thought will do’t, I feel.
- 1659, William Davenant, The Siege of Rhodes[1], London: Henry Herringman, Part 2, Act 5, p. 50:
- Solyman. […] Few Rhodian Knights, making their several stands,
Out-strike Assemblies of our many Hands.