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Strick′le.


1. (Carpentry and Masonry.) A pattern or templet.

Stretching-iron.


2. (Founding.) a. A semicircular piece of wood used in smoothing molds of loam to form cores for curved and crooked pipes; also for spreading upon the cores a thickness of loam answering to the required thickness of the pipe. The core and its envelope form a model in the sand-flask, and are then removed; the outer thickness of loam is removed, exposing the core; this is placed in the mold, resting on [2428] prints; the mold is closed, clamped, and the metal poured.

b. A straight-edge of wood with which to remove superfluous sand from a flask after ramming up.


2. (Cloth-shearing Machines.) A straight-edge fed with emery and employed to grind the edges of a series of knives arranged spirally on a cylinder.

3. A straight-edge to strike grain to a level with the upper edge of the measure. A strike.

4. An instrument for whetting scythes. A rifle.


5. (Flax.) A strike or sword used in dressing flax.

Tiemann's stricture-cutters.

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