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† ˈplegnic, a. (n.) Obs. rare.
[app. arbitrarily f. Gr. πληγή blow, stroke + -ic.]
Acting by a blow or stroke, as a hammer; also as n.: see quots.
1612Sturtevant Metallica 37 Plegnicks..performe their opperation and effect, by their dexterous and artificiall ioynt-moouing... There is a great vse of the Plegnick instruments for the making of Eumechanick and reformed Milnes and Bellowses. 1664J. Wilson Projectors iii. 36 From the Pestle and Mortar [came] all sort of Mills, whether Horizontal, or Plegnick; Horse, Hand, Wind, Water, or otherwise. |