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单词 strickle
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Definition of strickle in English:

strickle

noun ˈstrɪk(ə)lˈstrɪkəl
  • 1A rod used to level off a heaped measure.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Among the necessary tools for their construction, we can mention as basic, a bench drill machine or manual, strickles, wrenches and as accessory instruments males and wicks of different caliber.
    • The strickle and loam process is a well practiced and cheaper way for making large round shaped castings and is used in bell foundries.
    • This last application of the strickle was used to accurately delineate decorative bands on the piece, as well as to locate the position of the trunnions.
    • Secondary strickles are less obvious but, strangely enough, more important, and therefore more demanding of time, both in selection and execution.
    • Rotating the strickle around the mould ensures that it is circular.
    • The auction was accompanied by a market where you might buy smoked or salted fish and meat, wooden articles like scythes and strickles and of course beer and the local speciality: black coffee with snaps.
  • 2A whetting tool.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In 1885 Alfred Lawson purchased the Redenhall foundry but apparently he did not use any of its strickles or stamps.
    • The sides of the strickle are smeared with grease upon which fine gritty sand is sprinkled freely; nothing gives a better edge to a scythe than this.
    • Many cutting tools were sharpened with strickles or whetstones.
    • The whetting of the scythe's blade with the 'strickle', smeared over with grease and fine sand, producing an edge like a sharp knife, was a familiar sound.

Origin

Old English stricel (in sense 1); related to strike. sense 2 dates from the mid 17th century.

Rhymes

chicle, fickle, mickle, nickel, pickle, prickle, sickle, tickle, trickle
 
 

Definition of strickle in US English:

strickle

nounˈstrɪkəlˈstrikəl
  • 1A rod used to level off a heaped measure.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The auction was accompanied by a market where you might buy smoked or salted fish and meat, wooden articles like scythes and strickles and of course beer and the local speciality: black coffee with snaps.
    • Rotating the strickle around the mould ensures that it is circular.
    • This last application of the strickle was used to accurately delineate decorative bands on the piece, as well as to locate the position of the trunnions.
    • The strickle and loam process is a well practiced and cheaper way for making large round shaped castings and is used in bell foundries.
    • Among the necessary tools for their construction, we can mention as basic, a bench drill machine or manual, strickles, wrenches and as accessory instruments males and wicks of different caliber.
    • Secondary strickles are less obvious but, strangely enough, more important, and therefore more demanding of time, both in selection and execution.
  • 2A whetting tool.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In 1885 Alfred Lawson purchased the Redenhall foundry but apparently he did not use any of its strickles or stamps.
    • The sides of the strickle are smeared with grease upon which fine gritty sand is sprinkled freely; nothing gives a better edge to a scythe than this.
    • Many cutting tools were sharpened with strickles or whetstones.
    • The whetting of the scythe's blade with the 'strickle', smeared over with grease and fine sand, producing an edge like a sharp knife, was a familiar sound.

Origin

Old English stricel (in strickle (sense 1)); related to strike. strickle (sense 2) dates from the mid 17th century.

 
 
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