Meaning

A rod used to level off heaped grain etc. when being measured, or concrete after pouring..

Definitions by Sense

1. A rod used to level off heaped grain etc. when being measured, or concrete after pouring.
2. (husbandry) A tool for sharpening scythes, composed typically of a piece of wood smeared with grease and sand.
3. (metallurgy) A bevel-edged finishing tool used for smoothing the surface of a mold, core, or mold in sand or loam.
4. (carpentry, masonry) A template; a pattern.
5. An instrument used in dressing flax.
6. (transitive) To level using a strickle.

Word Forms

• strickles
• strikle
• stritchel
• stritchell
• stritchill
• strichell
• strickling
• strickled

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