different between strook vs stroot

English

Verb

strook

1. (obsolete) simple past tense of strike

   • He strook so hard, the bason broke

   • The mon?ter mad with rage, and ?tung with ?mart,
     His lance directed at the hero's heart :
     It ?trook; but bounded from his harden'd brea?t […]

   • 1678, Nathaniel Wanley, The Wonders of the Little World Or a General History of Man (page 210)

     Then the Romans in Antonia fearing his life, cryed out; but the Jews, many at once, strook him with Swords and Spears.

Anagrams

• Toroks

Dutch

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stro?k/
• Hyphenation: strook
• Rhymes: -o?k

Noun

strook f (plural stroken, diminutive strookje n)

1. strip

   Synonym: reep

2. stripe

Derived terms

• dwarsstrook
• fietsstrook
• pechstrook
• rijstrook
• strokenverkaveling
• vluchtstrook

Anagrams

• koorts

Middle English

Noun

strook (plural strookes)

1. Alternative form of stroke
   • 14^th Century, Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, The Knight's Tale

     The brighte swerdes wenten to and fro
     So hidously þat with þe leste strook
     That it semeþ þat it wolde felle an ook

English

Etymology

Compare strut.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st?u?t/

Verb

stroot (third-person singular simple present stroots, present participle strooting, simple past and past participle strooted)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To swell out; to strut.
   • 1603, George Chapman, Bussy D'Ambois

     they make him Stroddle enough, stroot, and look bigg, and gape,

Anagrams

• Tortos