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▸ verb: To have a sharp or sudden physical effect, as from a blow.
▸ verb: (transitive) To hit.
▸ verb: (transitive) To give, as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a force to; to dash; to cast.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To deliver a quick blow or thrust; to give blows.
▸ verb: (transitive) To manufacture, as by stamping.
▸ verb: (intransitive, dated) To run upon a rock or bank; to be stranded; to run aground.
▸ verb: (transitive) To cause to sound by one or more beats; to indicate or notify by audible strokes. Of a clock, to announce (an hour of the day), usually by one or more sounds.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To sound by percussion, with blows, or as if with blows.
▸ verb: (transitive) To cause or produce by a stroke, or suddenly, as by a stroke.
▸ verb: (transitive) To cause to ignite by friction.
▸ verb: (transitive) To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate.
▸ verb: To have a sharp or severe effect on a more abstract level.
▸ verb: (transitive) To punish; to afflict; to smite.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To carry out a violent or illegal action.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To act suddenly, especially in a violent or criminal way.
▸ verb: (transitive, figurative) To impinge upon.
▸ verb: (transitive) To impress, seem or appear to (a person).
▸ verb: (transitive) To create an impression.
▸ verb: (sports) To score a goal.
▸ verb: To make a sudden impression upon, as if by a blow; to affect with some strong emotion.
▸ verb: To affect by a sudden impression or impulse.
▸ verb: (intransitive, UK, obsolete, slang) To steal or rob; to take forcibly or fraudulently.
▸ verb: (slang, archaic) To borrow money from; to make a demand upon.
▸ verb: To touch; to act by appulse.
▸ verb: (transitive) To take down, especially in the following contexts.
▸ verb: (nautical) To haul down or lower (a flag, mast, etc.)
▸ verb: (by extension) To capitulate; to signal a surrender by hauling down the colours.
▸ verb: (intransitive, by extension) To stop working as a protest to achieve better working conditions.
▸ verb: (transitive, dated, by extension) To quit (one's job).
▸ verb: To dismantle and take away (a theater set; a tent; etc.).
▸ verb: To unfasten, to loosen (chains, bonds, etc.).
▸ verb: (intransitive) To set off on a walk or trip.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.
▸ verb: (dated) To break forth; to commence suddenly; with into.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To become attached to something; said of the spat of oysters.
▸ verb: (transitive) To make and ratify; to reach; to find.
▸ verb: To discover a source of something, often a buried raw material such as ore (especially gold) or crude oil.
▸ verb: To level (a measure of grain, salt, etc.) with a straight instrument, scraping off what is above the level of the top.
▸ verb: (masonry) To cut off (a mortar joint, etc.) even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.
▸ verb: To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly.
▸ verb: (sugar-making, obsolete) To lade thickened sugar cane juice from a teache into a cooler.
▸ verb: To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.
▸ verb: (obsolete) To advance; to cause to go forward; used only in the past participle.
▸ verb: To balance (a ledger or account).
▸ noun: (baseball) A status resulting from a batter swinging and missing a pitch, or not swinging at a pitch when the ball goes in the strike zone, or hitting a foul ball that is not caught.
▸ noun: (bowling) The act of knocking down all ten pins on the first roll of a frame.
▸ noun: A work stoppage (or otherwise concerted stoppage of an activity) as a form of protest.
▸ noun: A blow or application of physical force against something.
▸ noun: (military, by extension) An attack, not necessarily physical.
▸ noun: (finance) In an option contract, the price at which the holder buys or sells if they choose to exercise the option.
▸ noun: (historical) An old English measure of corn equal to the bushel.
▸ noun: (cricket) The status of being the batsman that the bowler is bowling at.
▸ noun: The primary face of a hammer, opposite the peen.
▸ noun: (geology) The compass direction of the line of intersection between a rock layer and the surface of the Earth or another solid celestial body.
▸ noun: An instrument with a straight edge for levelling a measure of grain, salt, etc., scraping off what is above the level of the top; a strickle.
▸ noun: (obsolete) Fullness of measure; the whole amount produced at one time.
▸ noun: (obsolete, by extension) Excellence; quality.
▸ noun: An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.
▸ noun: (ironworking) A puddler's stirrer.
▸ noun: (obsolete) The extortion of money, or the attempt to extort money, by threat of injury; blackmail.
▸ noun: The discovery of a source of something.
▸ noun: The strike plate of a door.
▸ noun: (fishing) A nibble on the bait by a fish.
▸ noun: (philately) A cancellation postmark.
▸ noun: A surname.
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wildcat strike,
general strike,
sympathy strike,
political strike,
labor strike,
work stoppage,
lockout,
boycott,
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