strooke

English

Verb

strooke

1. 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)

1. Obsolete form of stroke.

Anagrams

• Tookers, stooker

Middle English

Noun

strooke

1. alternative form of stroke

Yola

Alternative forms

• strucke, struck

Etymology

From Middle English stroke, from Old English strāc, from Proto-West Germanic *straik.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /strɔːk/, /strʊk/
• Homophone: stroke

Verb

strooke

1. 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

Related terms

• stroke

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), 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, published 1867, page 70