The Collaborative International Dictionary
Strickle \Stric"kle\, n. [See Strike.]
An instrument to strike grain to a level with the measure; a strike.
An instrument for whetting scythes; a rifle.
(Founding) An instrument used for smoothing the surface of a core.
(Carp. & Mason.) A templet; a pattern.
An instrument used in dressing flax. [Prov. Eng.]
Wiktionary
n. 1 A rod used to level grain etc. when being measured, or concrete after pouring 2 A tool for sharpening scythes 3 An instrument used for smoothing the surface of a core. 4 (context carpentry masonry English) A templet; a pattern. 5 An instrument used in dressing flax.
WordNet
n. an implement for sharpening scythes
a tool used to level off grain or other granular material in a measure
a tool used in a foundry to shape a mold in sand
v. form with a strickle; "strickle in sand"
smooth with a strickle; "strickle the grain in the measure" [syn: strike]
Usage examples of "strickle".
Graves, Moorman, Strickler, and Webb have all been on visits to their sweethearts, and have left without them.
How Strickling, in the hours before he summoned police, had restaged the scene and caused a phony suicide note to be written.
But Harlow, she got the inscription wrong and, too quick for Strickling to prevent, she inserted the black pennies.
I shrugged at Strickling and he smiled at me and wished me a good night.
He had two jobs at that place, to carry a gun and to keep the registers, and Strickling would do both jobs with an integrity I could only admire, not match.
Skeins of spun wool, wool cloth, a churn, a cream pot and paddle, strickles, parchments still stretched on frames, an ox yoke but no ox, and the convent bell with its clapper sheathed.