| 释义 |
▪ I. stritch1 Obs. exc. dial.|strɪtʃ|
Also 5 stryche.
[? Shortened from stritchel: see strickle n.]
1. = strickle n. 1.
14..Lat.-Eng. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 588/13 Hostorium, a stryche. 1825Jennings Observ. Dial. W. Eng. 73 Stritch, a strickle: a piece of wood used for striking off the overplus from a corn measure.
2. = strick n. 1, strike n. 4.
14..Lat.-Eng. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 593/9 Linipulus, a streche of flaxe.
▪ II. stritch2|strɪtʃ|
Also strich.
[Origin uncertain.]
A musical instrument resembling a straightened alto saxophone. (Chiefly associated with the American jazz musician Roland Kirk, b. 1936.)
1960Downbeat 4 Aug. 13/1 Kirk haunted music stores, examined all kinds of antique instruments, many of them remnants of the 19th century... When he found what he was looking for..they weren't saxophones at all... One was a stritch, the other a manzello. 1962, etc. [see manzello]. 1969Punch 12 Mar. 393/2 The manzello and strich..sound fine as solo instruments or as sudden quasi-orchestral interludes in a tenor solo. 1977Time 19 Dec. 53/1 Kirk played the manzello (a quasi-saxophone), the stritch (a horn resembling a dented blunderbuss) and the tenor sax together. |