Founding. [f. STRICKLE sb.] trans. To strike off with a strickle (the superfluous sand) in molding; to shape (a core) or form (a mold) by means of a strickle. Also absol.
1885. [Horner], Pattern Making, 153. A level bed would be made on the sand, the frame laid upon it, and the sand rammed round flush with its top edge, and strickled-off level. Ibid. The curb ring facing, boss, and bed are strickled in the bottom by a board working round a core-bar. Ibid., 154. The sand within the frame is strickled over level with its upper face. Ibid. In making tank-plates in quantity,… it is usually considered cheaper to make the pattern solid, and so save the cost of strickling each time of moulding.
Hence Strickling vbl. sb.
1888. Lockwood’s Dict. Mech. Engin., The strickling is effected by means of a strickle or striking board and a guide of some form or another.
