strook

simple past of strike

Verb

  1. simple past of strike
    • He strook so hard, the bason broke - c. 1619–1623, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, “The Little French Lawyer”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published...
    • Then the Romans in Antonia fearing his life, cryed out; but the Jews, many at once, strook him with Swords and Spears. - 1678, Nathaniel Wanley, The Wonders of the Little World Or a General History of Man, page 210:
    • The monſter mad with rage, and ſtung with ſmart, / His lance directed at the hero’s heart : / It ſtrook; but bounded from his harden’d breaſt[…] - 1717, John Dryden [et al.], “(please specify |book=I to XV)”, in Ovid’s...
  2. past participle of strike
    • Stoop villaine, ſtoop, ſtoope for ſo he bids, That may commaund thee peecemeale to be torne, Or ſcattered like the lofty Cedar trees. Strooke with the voice of thundring Iupiter. - c. 1587–1588 (date written),...