strooke

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English

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Verb

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strooke

  1. Obsolete form of struck.

Noun

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strooke (plural strookes)

  1. Obsolete form of stroke.

Anagrams

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Middle English

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Noun

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strooke

  1. Alternative form of stroke

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle English stroke, from Old English strāc, from Proto-West Germanic *straik.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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strooke

  1. struck
    • 1867, “SONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 4, page 108:
      A vursth stroke hea strooke
      The first stroke he struck
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References

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  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 70