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Definition of strickle in English: stricklenoun 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: stricklenounˈstrɪkəlˈstrikəl 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. |