Obs. exc. dial. Also 5 stryche. [? Shortened from stritchel: see STRICKLE sb.]
1. = STRICKLE sb. 1.
14[?]. Lat.-Eng. Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 588/13. Hostorium, a stryche.
1825. Jennings, Observ. Dial. W. Eng., 73. Stritch, a strickle: a piece of wood used for striking off the overplus from a corn measure.
2. = STRICK sb. 1, STRIKE sb. 4.
14[?]. Lat.-Eng. Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 593/9. Linipulus, a streche of flaxe.
