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▪ I. striking, vbl. n.|ˈstraɪkɪŋ|
[f. strike v. + -ing1.]
1. a. The action of strike v., in various senses.
c1400Laud Troy Bk. 7389 Of his scheld a ful quartere He carff a-wey at that strikyng. 1485Naval Acc. Hen. VII (1896) 22 His wages vjs viijd workyng about the said Ship..preparyng the strikyng of her mast. 1572Charters etc. Peebles (1872) 341 The counsale ordanis Robert Thomsone..to vse the stryking of the swische nychtlie to the wauche. 1592Shakes. Ven. & Ad. 250 Strucke dead at first, what needs a second striking? 1631B. Jonson New Inn i. iii, It should not come, me thinkes, Vnder your cap, this veine of salt, and sharpnesse! These strikings vpon learning, now and then! 1668Dryden Dram. Poesie 43 [Jonson] has allow'd a very inconsiderable time, after Catiline's Speech, for the striking of the battle, and the return of Petreius, who is to relate the event of it to the Senate. 1820T. Hodgson Ess. Stereotype Printing 104 Herhan applied this machine to the striking of his types. 1874A. J. Ellis Early Eng. Pronunc. iv. xi. 1329 An r made by a striking of the tongue against the teeth, gums, or roof of the mouth. 1897Encycl. Sport I. 264/2 (Curling) Striking, hitting with a stone another placed on the tee with sufficent force to drive it out of the circle.
b. with advs.
1530Palsgr. 277/2 Strykyng agayne, repercussion. Strykyng togyder, collision. 1582T. Watson Centurie of Love To Rdr., Virgill in expressing the striking downe of an oxe, letteth the end of his hexameter fall withall. 1619Abp. Abbot in Rushw. Hist. Collect. (1659) I. 12 Our striking-in will comfort the Bohemians. 1721Mortimer Husb. (ed. 5) I. 388 The Price for plowing of Land with us is four Shillings an Acre, for each striking of it over, two Shillings an Acre. 1865Dickens Mut. Fr. ii. i, ‘I don't like that’, said Bradley Headstone. His pupil was a little surprised by this striking-in with so sudden..an objection.
†c. An assault. Obs.
1541Act 33 Hen. VIII, c. 12 §1 Murders, manslaughters and other malicious strikinges..commytted within the lymittes of the Kinges palace.
d. Building, Carpentry, etc. (See quot. 1842.)
1735J. Price Stone Br. Thames 8 To facilitate the striking of the Centers to each Arch. 1842Gwilt Archit. Gloss., Striking, a term used to denote the draught of lines on the surface of a body;..also..the drawing of lines on the face of a piece of stuff for mortises, and cutting the shoulders of tenons... [Also].. the act of running a moulding with a plane. The striking of a centre is the removal of the timber framing upon which an arch is built, after its completion. 1898Daily News 17 May 2/6 The striking of the centering round the north light was the cause of the accident.
e. Tanning. The process of smoothing and stretching skins. Also striking-out. Freq. attrib.
a1877Knight Dict. Mech. iii. 2429/1 Striking-machine. 1882Encycl. Brit. XIV. 385/2 For striking or pinning by hand the hide is dampened with water, thrown over a beam, and worked all over the grain side with a striking pin. Ibid., Striking machines are now very generally used for the operation. 1897C. T. Davis Manuf. Leather (ed. 2) 378 The ‘striking out’ was performed on mahogany tables. 1920Conquest Nov. 38/3 Stretching and smoothing [hides] with a striking-pin (a two-handled tool triangular in sections). 1942,1953[see setting vbl. n.1 13 a].
2.
†a. ? A paralytic stroke, paralysis. Obs.
1599A. M. tr. Gabelhouer's Bk. Physic 26/2 Water of Mayflowers for the strickinge. Ibid., An excellente..Confectione, for the strikinge of the hande of God.
b. A disease in calves; also blood-striking [= G. blutschlag].
1776Compl. Grazier (ed. 4) 21 To prevent Stricking of Calves. 1861Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. XXII. i. 145 Blood⁓striking, or quarter-ill, is hardly known. 1887Field 19 Feb. 260/1 Quarter-ill or Striking.
3. attrib. and Comb., as striking force; in designations of mechanism concerned in producing the striking of a clock, as striking barrel, striking part, striking-pin, striking train, striking-weight, striking-wheel, striking-work; in names of tools or appliances used for striking (in various senses), as striking-bar, striking-board, striking-hammer, striking staff, striking wedge. Also striking-box, the metal box on a door-jamb which receives the end of the bolt of the lock when the door is locked; striking-circle Hockey (see quots.); striking distance, (a) the distance within which it is possible to strike a blow; (b) Electr. (see quot. 1893); striking-earth Agric., soil for roots to strike in; striking force, (a) the force with which a projectile strikes; (b) a military force held in readiness for sudden attack; striking gear, in a saw-mill (see quot.); striking-house, (a) Mining (see quot.); (b) Agric., a house in which seeds, etc. are placed to ‘strike’, before they are planted out; striking-iron, a kind of harpoon; striking knife, † (a) a heavy knife for kitchen use; (b) Leather-manuf., a triangular steel knife for scraping hides (Knight Dict. Mech. 1875); (c) Carpentry, a knife for marking or scribing (cf. sense 1 d); striking-line, a harpoon line; striking magnet Electr. (see quot.); striking-plate, (a) the metal plate against which the end of a spring-lock bolt strikes, when the door or lid is being closed; (b) (see quot. a 1877); striking platform Archæol., a flat area on a core of flint or stone on which a blow is struck to detach a flake; striking-plough (see quot. 1805); striking price Stock Exchange. (see quots. 1973, 1982); striking-reed Mus., a percussion reed (Stainer & Barrett); striking-ring Billiards, the D or half-circle in which a player whose ball is in hand must place it to make a stroke; striking-tache Sugar-manuf. (see tache n.3 1).
1850Denison Clock & Watch-m. 131 A pin in the *striking barrel.
1885[Horner] Pattern Making 68 The first *striking board, C, notched to correspond to the semi-diameter of the flange, minus half the diameter of the *striking bar, D,..will be swept over this surface.
1896A. Morrison Child Jago xxxiii. 308 Josh..forced the *striking⁓box of the lock off its screws.
1890F. S. Creswell Hockey 11 No goal can be scored unless the ball be hit by one of the attacking side from within the *striking circle. 1906Official Handbk. Hockey Assoc. 120 In front of each goal shall be drawn a white line 4 yds. long, parallel to, and 15 yds from, the goal line. This line shall be continued each way to meet the goal line by quarter-circles having the goal posts as centres. The space enclosed by these lines and the goal lines, including the lines themselves, shall be called the striking circle. 1961F. C. Avis Sportsman's Gloss. 219/1 Striking circle, in Hockey the space immediately in front of goal, really a rough semi-circle, 15 yards from the goal line.
1751B. Franklin Exper. & Observations Electricity 62 A needle..will draw the fire from the scale silently at a much greater than the *striking distance. 1767― Of Lightning etc. Wks. 1840 V. 415 The distance at which a body charged with this fluid will discharge itself suddenly, striking through the air into another body that is not..so highly charged, is different according to the quantity [etc.]... This distance, whatever it happens to be between any two bodies, is called their striking distance, as, till they come within that distance of each other, no stroke will be made. 1804T. Jefferson Writ. (1830) IV. 20 While fortune then places us within striking distance, let us avail ourselves of it. 1870Daily News 20 Dec., The north-westward movement of Chanzy brought him within striking distance of the German Corps at Chartres. 1893Sloane Electr. Dict. 496 Striking distance, the distance that separates two conductors charged with electricity of different potential, when a spark starts between them.
1863Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. XXIV. i. 224 It may then be laid about 2 feet deep, and 6 inches of loose *striking-earth spread upon it.
1881Greener Gun 182 The various calculations respecting the *striking force of rifles. 1917T. E. Lawrence Lett. (1938) 230 Force 3 is our striking force (of perhaps 6,000 not bad men) and may be able to rush Deraat, or at least should cut off the garrison there. 1944[see air strike s.v. air n.1 B. III 2)]. 1965J. A. Michener Source (1966) 793 The well-trained Jews of the Palmach—an abbreviation for the Plugat Machatz, ‘striking force’, organized in 1941 to resist the threatened German invasion.
1883M. P. Bale Saw-mills 336 *Striking gear, known also as belt gear, is an arrangement of levers for stopping or starting machinery by throwing the driving belt off or on the driving pulley.
1865H. Kingsley Hillyars & Burtons v, My father stepped across to the [blacksmith's] shop for a trifle of a *striking hammer, weight eighteen pounds.
1824J. Mander Derbysh. Miner's Gloss. 70 *Striking-house, a sheltered place where the Striker stands, either at the top or middle length of an engine. 1863Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. XXIV. i. 221 In order to test the goodness of some yellow globe-seed,..I had ordered some to be..raised in a striking-house.
1817Q. Rev. Oct. 217 Harpoons and *striking-irons.
1578Knaresb. Wills (Surtees) I. 133 In the kitching..one *striking knyfe, one flesh axe. 1901J. Black Carp. & Build., Home Handicr. 15 In place of a pencil many prefer to mark the stuff across with a ‘striking knife’ (fig. 4) and try square.
1827O. W. Roberts Voy. Centr. Amer. 57 The fishing Indians of the coast..use them as *striking lines for securing turtle, &c. 1897Outing XXIX. 470/1 The striking-line ordinarily used on the coast is three-sixteenths, medium-laid, white cotton line.
1898Sloane Electr. Dict. (ed. 2) 622 *Striking magnet (a) An electro-magnet used in an arc lamp to separate the carbons..so as to form or ‘strike’ the arc. (b) An electro-magnet used to ring a bell, by having a hammer attached to its armature.
1675J. S[mith] Horol. Dial. i. ii. 10 *Striking part. 1825J. Nicholson Oper. Mech. 497 The striking part of this clock.
1696W. Derham Artific. Clock-m. ii. 34 The Pin-wheel is 78, the *Striking⁓pins are 13.
1837L. Hebert Engin. & Mech. Encycl. II. 108 The patentees cause this part [sc. the bolt] to drop into a notch in the *striking plate after it has been elevated by passing over an inclined plane upon it. 1856G. Price Fire & Thief-proof Depositories etc. 811 Spring locks are those in which the bolt locks itself out by coming in contact with the striking-plate. a1877Knight Dict. Mech. iii. 2429/2 Striking-plate, the device by which the wooden centering of an arch is lowered when the arch is completed.
1913Proc. Prehistoric Soc. E. Anglia I. iii. 311 The flaking..is of a very high order, dexterous vertical blows, with well-masked cones of percussion, and *striking platforms being supplemented by the most regular and fine edge-work. 1949K. P. Oakley Man Tool-Maker 25 Each blow is delivered obliquely downwards near the edge of some conveniently placed flattish area (the striking platform), usually the scar of a flake previously struck off. 1977L. L. Johnson in Hill & Gunn Individual in Prehistory x. 218 Collapsed platforms were noted only where there was no retouch on the striking platform.
1805R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. 470 In some parts of Kent..an implement is often employed which they term a *striking plough, by which little drills or channels are formed in the ground for the reception of the seed, about ten inches distant from each other.
1961K. S. Most How to make Money on Stock Exch. iii. 35 Suppose I have a..well-founded belief that Woolworths' shares are going to rise in price..I shall have to pay out {pstlg}335 plus purchase costs for every 100 shares. I may not have this money available..so I arrange to give the price of a call option, say, 5s. per share, for the right to buy 100 Woolworths' shares at any time during the next twelve weeks at a price of, say, 66s., being the ‘*striking price’ at the end of the previous Account. 1973N. Searle Successful Investments 85 Striking price, the price at which the holder of an option has the right to effect a purchase or sale. 1982Times 9 Nov. 19 With a tender offer for sale, investors tender at the price they are prepared to pay. The issuing house works down the list to the lowest price at which the issue is totally subscribed. This becomes the ‘striking price’.
1875A. J. Ellis Helmholtz' Sensat. Tone App. 712 The harshness of the *striking reed is obviated in the English method of voicing.
1814C. Jones Hoyles' Games Impr. 378 [Billiards.] In stringing, the striker must place his ball within the *striking ring.
1697W. Dampier Voy. I. 35 His *striking staff..is about 8 foot long, almost as big as a mans Arm, at the great end, in which there is a hole to place his Harpoon in.
1830G. R. Porter Sugar Cane vii. 83 The cane liquor..is transferred to the third boiler, and so on to the last,..which is called the *striking teache.
1884F. J. Britten Watch & Clockm. 249 Connection is made between the *striking train and the *striking work by the gathering pallet.
1834–6Barlow in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) VIII. 95/1 This acting upon the surface of the *striking wedges equal to 540 square feet gives a pressure of 140 pounds per square inch. 1844Civil Engin. & Arch. Jrnl. VII. 246/2 The striking-wedges were of seasoned oak, well greased.
1845G. Dodd Brit. Manuf. IV. 189 In the Limehouse clock the going-weight is about sixty pounds, whereas the *striking-weight is a mass of iron weighing five hundred pounds.
1704J. Harris Lex. Techn. I, *Striking-Wheel, in a Clock, is that which by some is called the Pin-wheel.
1876Encycl. Brit. IV. 311/2 Figure 55 shows the striking plates and wedges by which the centre is lowered after the completion of the arch.
▪ II. striking, ppl. a.|ˈstraɪkɪŋ|
[f. strike v.1 + -ing2.]
That strikes.
1. gen.
c1611Chapman Iliad xv. 654 Not a shaft, nor farre-of striking dart, Was vsde through all. 1676Mace Musicks Mon. 109 When you would perform This Grace, it is but to strike your Letter,..with one of your Fingers, and immediately clap on your next striking Finger, upon the String which you struck. 1875A. J. Ellis tr. Helmholtz' Sensat. Tone i. v. 144 Formerly, striking vibrators or reeds were employed, which on each oscillation struck against their frame.
†b. Of a horse: Addicted to kicking. Obs.
1661Lovell Hist. Anim. & Min. 257 The decoction helps striking Horses.
2. Of a clock or watch:
a. Constructed so as to be capable of striking.
[1611Florio, Horologio, any kind of clock, horologe, or striking-houre instrument.] 1625in Rymer Fœdera XVIII. 238/1 A high Salte of Goulde..with a striking Clocke in the Cover. 1659Torriano, Horologiografia, a description of striking-clocks or horologes. 1665Hooke Microgr. 134, I have heard of a striking Watch so small, that it serv'd for a pendant in a Ladies ear. 1862Catal. Internat. Exhib., Brit. II. No. 3316, Eight-day turret striking clock, with four faces. 1873Nelthropp Watch-work 87 A striking watch, by Marwick, of London. a.d. 1680.
b. That is in the act of striking.
1732Fielding Covent-Gard. Trag. ii. vii, Twice and once I've told the striking Clock's increasing Sound, And yet unkind Stormandra stays away. 1905R. Bagot Passport xi. 100 At length, however, a striking clock had roused Monsieur d'Antin.
3. That strikes the attention of an observer; producing a vivid impression on the mind; telling, impressive, unusually remarkable.
Prob. imitated from the similar use of F. frappant.
1752Sir H. Beaumont Crito 7 Tho' Colour be the lowest of all the constituent Parts of Beauty, yet is it vulgarly the most striking, and the most observed. 1755Johnson, Striking, affecting, surprising. 1759― Rasselas x, Or whether,..the first writers took possession of the most striking objects for description. 1765Museum Rust. IV. 99 This gentleman..has written the following very striking passage. 1788New Lond. Mag. Mar. 142 Account of Mr. Alderman Bell. Embellished with a striking Likeness. 1818Scott Rob Roy xix, The principal street was..of an architecture rather striking than correct in point of taste. 1820Q. Mus. Mag. II. 19 The Fugata itself forms a striking contrast with the succeeding movement by Leal and Rego. 1858J. Blackwood in Mrs. G. Porter Ann. Publishing Ho. (1898) III. 47 The story is a very striking one, and I cannot recollect anything at all of the same kind. 1859Jephson Brittany viii. 114 The dress of the peasants is striking.
Comb.1855D. Costello Stories fr. Screen 116 Alfred Washball was one of the most striking-looking..members of the profession. 1894Conan Doyle Mem. Sherlock Holmes 218 She was a striking-looking woman.
4. Naut. Of a mast: Capable of being struck or lowered.
1677Lond. Gaz. No. 1192/4 The Dolphin of Ostend,..a striking Top-mast, a square Stern, and an open Vessel. 1861Smiles Engineers II. 270 Coasters and even colliers, with striking masts, might then be able to navigate the whole extent of the City westward.
5. Of a workman, etc.: That is on strike.
1894Westm. Gaz. 11 June 3/2 Presently some men come in, with..the badge of the striking cabby..pinned on their coats. 1898Hamblen Gen. Manager's Story xiv. 229 No striking employee would be allowed to trespass on the company's property during the continuance of the strike.
Hence ˈstrikingness.
1818Todd. 1839Fraser's Mag. XX. 701 If strikingness of character be at all an object worth attending to. 1889Spectator 28 Dec., Oratorical power, be it eloquence, as with Mr. Gladstone, or strikingness of phrase, as with Lord Beaconsfield. |