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Strook
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Strook
STROOK
, for struck. [Not in use.]Definition 2024
strook
strook
English
Verb
strook
- (obsolete) simple past tense of strike
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- 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.
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Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -oːk
Noun
strook c (plural stroken, diminutive strookje n)
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Middle English
Noun
strook (plural strooks)
- stroke
- 14th 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
- The brighte swerdes wenten to and fro
- 14th Century, Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, The Knight's Tale