ppl. a. [f. STRIKE v. + -ED1.] Of a bushel or other measure: Levelled with a strike or strickle: opposed to heaped.

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1581.  Lambarde, Eiren., IV. iv. (1588), 435. If any such Purveior … have taken corne by any other measure then by the striked bushel.

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1674.  Jeake, Arith. (1696), 70. Meal in some places sold by Measure. In 1 Bushel 12 Gallons striked.

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1725.  Bradley’s Family Dict., s.v. Bushel, Meal, Corn, and other Grain are now measured with strik’d Bushels, and without any Grain above the edges.

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1844.  Stephens, Bk. Farm, III. 980. The heaped measure of the summer will tell out in an equal number of bushels of striked measure in spring.

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1894.  R. S. Ferguson, Hist. Westmorld., 137. Two old peck measures, one containing eight and the other ten striked quarts.

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