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. |