Lexicographical Neighbors of Streeked
Literary usage of Streeked
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1894)
"A measure when filled with wheat or other measured commodity was streeked across
the top with a level or strickle. This was streeked or strickle measure. ..."
2. Northumberland Words by Richard Oliver Heslop, Harry Haldane, Oliver Heslop (1894)
"A measure when filled with wheat or other measured commodity was streeked across
the top with a level or strickle. This was streeked or strickle measure. ..."
3. A Glossary of North Country Words, with Their Etymology, & Affinity to Other by John Trotter Brockett, William Edward Brockett (1846)
"streeked-MEASURE, exact measure—in opposition to heaped measure. ... STRICKLE,
an instrument used in whetting a scythe—that with which it is streeked, ..."
4. A Glossary of North Country Words, in Use: With Their Etymology, and by John Trotter Brockett (1829)
"streeked-MEASURE, exact measure—in opposition to heaped measure. ... STRICKLE,
an instrument used in whetting a scythe—that with which it is streeked, ..."
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