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• past tense form of strike.

strook

American  

[strook] / strʊk /

verb

Scot. and North England.

1. a simple past tense and past participle of strike.

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Example Sentences

Your ffleschely lorde now hath lyff, That deyd on tre with strook and stryff; Wende fforthe, thou wepynge wyff, And seke hym, I the saye.

From The Growth of English Drama by Wynne, Arnold

But he, the King of Heav'n, obscure on high, Bar'd his red arm, and, launching from the sky His writhen bolt, not shaking empty smoke, Down to the deep abyss the flaming felon strook.

From The Aeneid English by Virgil

Thrice rushing furious, at the chief he strook; His blazing buckler thrice Apollo shook: He tried the fourth: when, breaking from the cloud, A more than mortal voice was heard aloud.

From The Iliad by Pope, Alexander

I'll never strook you, nor smooth you, nor kiss you no more!

From Capt'n Davy's Honeymoon by Caine, Hall, Sir

The eight day much winde arising at the Westnorthwest, we not knowing how the coast lay, strook our sayles, and lay a drift, where we sounded and found 160 fadomes as afore.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03 by Hakluyt, Richard