strickle

English

A 19th-century strickle for sharpening scythes

Alternative forms

• strikle, stritchel, stritchell, stritchill, strichell

Etymology

From Middle English strikile, strikelle, strikyll, from Old English stricel, equivalent to strick +‎ -le (diminutive suffix). Compare Middle Dutch strijkel, streekel, strekel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstrɪkl̩/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɪkəl

Noun

strickle (plural strickles)

1. A rod used to level off heaped grain etc. when being measured, or concrete after pouring.
2. (husbandry) A tool for sharpening scythes, composed typically of a piece of wood smeared with grease and sand.
3. (metallurgy) A bevel-edged finishing tool used for smoothing the surface of a mold, core, or mold in sand or loam.
4. (carpentry, masonry) A template; a pattern.
5. An instrument used in dressing flax.

Synonyms

• screed, strickler

Translations

a rod for levelling

• Bulgarian: равнилка f (ravnilka)
• Galician: rapa (gl) m, rebolo (gl) m, rebola f
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: ἀπόμακτρον n (apómaktron)

• Latin: hostorium n
• Welsh: cyforbren m

Verb

strickle (third-person singular simple present strickles, present participle strickling, simple past and past participle strickled)

1. (transitive) To level using a strickle.

Anagrams

• Stickler, stickler, ticklers, trickles