stike
English edit
Etymology edit
See stich.
Noun edit
stike (plural stikes)
- (obsolete) A stanza.
- 1563, Thomas Sackville, The Induction:
- I had no sooner spoken of a stike,
But that the storm so rumbled in her breast,
As Æölus could never roar the like
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “stike”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)