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To strike with some implement with force; hence, to beat or cuff. [Prov. Eng.]

To strike with the open hand, or with something broad.

To strike violently and at random, esp. with an edged instrument; to lay about one indiscriminately with blows; to cut hastily and carelessly. Hewing and slashing at their idle shades. Spenser.

To slap; to strike; to beat; to throw down violently. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S.] How did you kill him Slat[t]ed his brains out. Marston.

To strike heavily. [Cant or Slang]

One who strikes heavy blows; hence, a boxer; a prize fighter. [Cant or Slang]

To strike; to inflict a blow upon with the hand, or with any instrument held in the hand, or with a missile thrown by the hand; as, to smite with the fist, with a rod, sword, spear, or stone. Whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. Matt. v. 39. And David . . . took thence a stone, and…

To strike, to hit, or to shut, with a sharp sound.

To cut slightly; to strike, or strike off, as by cutting. H. Kingsley.

A workman who accepts lower than the usual wages, or who refuses to strike when his fellows do; a rat; a knobstick. Those who work for lower wages during a strike are called snobs, the men who stand out being "nobs" De Quincey.

bow, in a series of transverse sections of a bell, that segment against which the clapper strikes, being the part which is most efficacious in producing the sound. See Illust. of Bell. -- Sound post. (Mus.) See Sounding post, under Sounding.

That part of a flail which strikes the grain. Knight.

To strike, as the breech, with the open hand; to slap.

To strike with the feet or spurs, as cocks do.

le sprungen amiss, Till a city brent up is. Chaucer. The shock was sufficiently strong to strike out some sparkles of his fiery temper. Prescott.

To strike and dash about, as water, mud, etc.; to plash.

To fall plump; to strike at one dash, or with a heavy stroke. [Obs.]

To strike beat, or press forcibly with the bottom of the foot, or by thrusting the foot downward. Shak. He frets, he fumes, he stares, he stamps the ground. Dryden.

imp. of Strike. Spenser.

To strike, beat, or bang; to break; to destroy. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]