strooke
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Verb edit
strooke
- Obsolete form of struck.
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
- Tis now ſtrooke twelfe, get thee to bed Franciſco,
Noun edit
strooke (plural strookes)
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Middle English edit
Noun edit
strooke
- Alternative form of stroke
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Etymology edit
From Middle English stryken, from Old English strīcan, from Proto-West Germanic *strīkan.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
strooke
- 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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- 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