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Striker   /strˈaɪkər/   Listen
noun
Striker  n.  
1.
One who, or that which, strikes; specifically, a blacksmith's helper who wields the sledge.
2.
A harpoon; also, a harpooner. "Wherever we come to an anchor, we always send out our strikers, and put out hooks and lines overboard, to try fish."
3.
A wencher; a lewd man. (Obs.)
4.
A workman who is on a strike.
5.
A blackmailer in politics; also, one whose political influence can be bought. (Political Cant)






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"Striker" Quotes from Famous Books



... if any one desires the office of overseer[3:1], he desires a good work. (2)The overseer then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, sober, discreet, orderly, hospitable, apt in teaching; (3)not given to wine, not a striker, but forbearing, averse to strife, not a lover of money; (4)presiding well over his own house, having his children in subjection with all decorum; (5)(but if one knows not how to preside over his own house, how shall he take ...
— The New Testament of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. • Various

... Led Striker call it a strike, Or the papers call it a war, They know not much what I am like, Nor ...
— The Seven Seas • Rudyard Kipling

... fought the battle of spiritual independence prematurely, as many children do. If all she did was hateful to God, what was the meaning of the approving or else the disapproving conscience, when she had done "right" or "wrong"? No "shoulder-striker" hits out straighter than a child with its logic. Why, I can remember lying in my bed in the nursery and settling questions which all that I have heard since and got out of books has never been able ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 4, No. 23, September, 1859 • Various

... heads of jute have been split up into suitable smaller pieces, they are placed in any convenient position for the batcher or "striker-up" to deal with. If the reader could watch the above operation of separating the heads of jute into suitable sizes, it would perhaps be much easier to understand the process of unravelling an apparently matted and crossed mass of fibre. As the loosened head emerges from the bale-opener, Figs. ...
— The Jute Industry: From Seed to Finished Cloth • T. Woodhouse and P. Kilgour

... adversaries more than any professional master of the art. His movements appeared to be slow and yet they were never behind time, and he had a curious instinct about what was coming. Bauer's famous deep-cartes were always met by a cut which at once parried the attack and confused the striker. Once or twice Rex's long blade shot out above his adversary's head with tremendous force, but Bauer was tall, quick and accomplished, and the attempt did not succeed. Greif began to feel that the match was by no means an uneven one, and he breathed ...
— Greifenstein • F. Marion Crawford


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