Definition of "strook"
strook
verb
(obsolete) simple past of strike
Quotations
He strook so hard, the bason broke
c. 1619–1623, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, “The Little French Lawyer”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)
And we sate calmly, though that rocky hill,The waves contending in its caverns strook,For they foreknew the storm, and the grey ruin shook.
1817 December, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, page 276
(obsolete) past participle of strike
Quotations
Stoop villaine, ſtoop, ſtoope for ſo he bids,That may commaund thee peecemeale to be torne,Or ſcattered like the lofty Cedar trees.Strooke with the voice of thundring Iupiter.
c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, Act IIII, scene ii