| 释义 |
striked, ppl. a.|straɪkt|
[f. strike v. + -ed1.]
Of a bushel or other measure: Levelled with a strike or strickle: opposed to heaped.
1581Lambarde Eiren. iv. iv. (1588) 435 If any such Purveior..have taken corne by any other measure then by the striked bushel. 1674S. Jeake Arith. (1696) 70 Meal in some places sold by Measure. In 1 Bushel 12 Gallons striked. 1725Bradley's Family Dict. s.v. Bushel, Meal, Corn, and other Grain are now measured with strik'd Bushels, and without any Grain above the edges. 1844H. Stephens Bk. Farm III. 980 The heaped measure of the summer will tell out in an equal number of bushels of striked measure in spring. 1894R. S. Ferguson Hist. Westmorld. 137 Two old peck measures, one containing eight and the other ten striked quarts. |