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noun

a measure, especially of grain, level with the top of a receptacle.

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Origin of struck measure

First recorded in 1930–35

Words nearby struck measure

strow, stroy, Strozzi, struck, struck jury, struck measure, structural, structural anthropology, structural formula, structural functionalism, structural gene

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He spoke of the present-day tragedies and turmoil that struck the city while he and his classmates were in the academy.
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The clock struck ten, and clerks poured in faster than ever, each one in a greater perspiration than his predecessor.
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Yet if there is a measure of untruth in such pretty flatteries, one needs to be superhuman in order to condemn them harshly.
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Not only have its fundamental principles been fully vindicated but in most details the working of the measure has been successful.
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British Dictionary definitions for struck measure

struck measure

noun

a measure of grain, etc, in which the contents are made level with the top of the container rather than being heaped

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