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 283 Strike, Streeck, or Strik. " To let a man down in the shaft by the windlass, and if he calls up to the men above ground to ' streecky they let him go further down.'' Pryce. From the Celtic Cornish word stric, active, nimble, swift. String. A thin vein or lode of ore is so called. String course. See String. Stringy. Term used of vegetables when too old and fibrous. Stroil. Strength. Polwhele. See Sproil. Stroil. A weedy growth of coarse grass, sedge, &c. In Celtic Cornish, strail elester, means, a mat of sedge or rushes. Strome. A streak. Stromy. Streaky. Strother, or Stroth. Hurry, fuss. " What's all the stroth about 1 " Strove. To force or compel an unwilling belief. " He strove me down to a lie." Strow, or Strawl. A litter ; confusion, row, distur- bance, or turmoil. (StrOVe. U.J.T.) Strub. To steal. As, to strub an orchard, i.e., steal the apples. Strunty. Misty, foggy. M.A.C. Stub. To grub or dig up the roots, as of furze, &c. "Stubbing furze." Stubbard, or Stubbet. A kind of apple.