strook

strook

1. (obsolete) simple past of strike
   • c. 1619–1623, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, “The Little French Lawyer”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     He strook so hard, the bason broke

   • 1678, Nathaniel Wanley, The Wonders of the Little World Or a General History of Man, page 210:

     Then the Romans in Antonia fearing his life, cryed out; but the Jews, many at once, strook him with Swords and Spears.

   • 1717, John Dryden [et al.], “(please specify |book=I to XV)”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

     The monſter mad with rage, and ſtung with ſmart, / His lance directed at the hero’s heart : / It ſtrook; but bounded from his harden’d breaſt […]

   • 1817 December, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 276:

     And we sate calmly, though that rocky hill,
     The waves contending in its caverns strook,
     For they foreknew the storm, and the grey ruin shook.

2. (obsolete) past participle of strike
   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act IIII, scene ii:

     Stoop villaine, ſtoop, ſtoope for ſo he bids,
     That may commaund thee peecemeale to be torne,
     Or ſcattered like the lofty Cedar trees.
     Strooke with the voice of thundring Iupiter.

• “strook”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Toroks

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• IPA^(key): /stroːk/

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• Hyphenation: strook
• Rhymes: -oːk

strook f (plural stroken, diminutive strookje n)

1. strip

   Synonym: reep

2. stripe
3. (traffic) driving lane

   Synonym: rijstrook

• → Indonesian: sêtruk
• → Papiamentu: strooki (dated)

• koorts

strook (plural strookes)

1. alternative form of stroke
   • 14^th Century, Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, The Knight's Tale

     The brighte swerdes wenten to and fro
     So hidously þat with þe leste strook
     That it semeþ þat it wolde felle an ook