Delivery or dealing (of blows); assault. Obsolete.
The delivery of a blow, a stroke. Obsolete.
Chiefly Scottish, English regional (northern), and Irish English (northern) in later use. An act of hitting, beating, or striking someone or…
An aim to strike, the launching of a blow; sometimes a blow.
An act of striking. An act of striking a blow; of a snake, the act of darting at its prey.