strooke

English

Verb

strooke

Obsolete form of struck.
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
  Tis now ſtrooke twelfe, get thee to bed Franciſco,

Noun

strooke (plural strookes)

Obsolete form of stroke.

Anagrams

Tookers, stooker

Middle English

Noun

strooke

Alternative form of stroke

Yola

Alternative forms

strucke, struck

Etymology

From Middle English stryken, from Old English strīcan, from Proto-West Germanic *strīkan.

Verb

strooke

struck
- 1867, “SONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 4, page 108:
  A vursth stroke hea strooke
  The first stroke he struck

References

Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 70

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