pa. pple. and ppl. a. [pa. pple. of STRIKE v.] † A. pa. pple. in special use = STRICKEN A, STRUCKEN A.
1594. Shaks., Rich. III., I. i. 92. His Noble Queene [is] Well strooke [1597 Qo. stroke] in yeares.
1629. Quarles, Argalus & P., III. 124. An old gray pilgrime, deeply strucke in yeares.
1787. Minor, IV. ii. 206. A person struck in years, and of a noble deportment, approached.
B. ppl. a.
1. Subjected to a blow or stroke.
1627. May, Lucan, IV. F 5. Make the strooke earth to deluge peruious.
1693. J. O., trans. Cowley’s Hist. Plants, I. C.’s Wks. 1721, III. 272. As soon as Musick from struck Strings rebounds.
1821. Joanna Baille, Metr. Leg., Lady G. Baillie, xvii. Then from the struck flint flew the spark.
1851. W. Pole, in Rimbault, Pianoforte (1860), 185. The elasticity of the struck wire would send it [sc. the hammer] down with such force that it rebounded.
1875. A. J. Ellis, trans. Helmholtz’ Sensat. Tone, I. v. 108. The differences in the quality of tone of struck strings.
b. Wounded: = STRICKEN ppl. a. B. 1. rare.
1809. Byron, Engl. Bards, 841. So the struck eagle … View’d his own feather on the fatal dart.
1819. Shelley, Cenci, I. ii. 12. Your image, as the hunter some struck deer, Follows me.
† 2. Of a battle: = STRICKEN B. 6. Obs.
1618–9. Beaum. & Fl., Bonduca, I. i. Ten struck Battels I suckt these honour’d scars from.
3. Marked, grooved.
1677. Moxon, Mech. Exerc., iii. 47. Those wheels that have more than one Groove in them are called Two, Three, &c. Struck-wheels. Ibid. (1678), ibid. v. 83. You must not Saw just upon the struck line.
4. Of a jury: (See quot. 1856. Cf. STRIKE v. 14.)
1856. Bouvier, Amer. Law Dict., Struck Jury, a special jury selected by striking from the pannel of jurors, a certain number by each party, so as to leave a number required by law to try the cause.
1902. Linn, Story of Mormons, 308. A struck jury was obtained.
5. Of a measure: Levelled with a strickle. = STRICKEN B. 4, STRIKED,
1866. Rogers, Agric. & Prices, I. x. 168. Nine struck bushels are reckoned as equal to eight heaped.
1883. Gresley, Gloss. Coal-mining, 245. Struck, level full; strickle measure.
6. Of a plant: That has put forth roots, rooted.
1856. Delamer, Fl. Garden (1861), 172. Pot off your struck chrysanthemums.
7. In various industrial arts.
a. Impressed with a device by means of a die.
1881. A. Watt, Mech. Industr., 190. Another … branch of cheap jewellery manufacture consists in what is called ‘struck’ work. Thin sheet gold alloy of various qualities is struck by means of a die into any desired form, by which a hollow shell is obtained; this is then filled by fusing into it a quantity of silver solder.
1886. B. V. Head, in L. Jewitt’s Eng. Coins & Tokens, 128. Modern casts made from ancient struck originals…. The lettering and the types on cast coins are also less sharply defined than on struck coins.
b. Electrometallurgy. (See quot. 1881.)
1881. A. Watt, Scientific Industr., II. 150. It is necessary that the article should be stuck,… that is, receive an immediate coating directly after immersion, when deposition may be allowed to progress more slowly.
1909. Century Dict., Suppl. (citing Houston, Dict. Elect.).
c. (See quot.)
1895. Funk’s Stand. Dict., Struck fish, fish saturated with salt and then smoked.
d. Struck up: (of tinware) raised or fashioned by means of a press.
1875. Knight, Dict. Mech., 2466/1. Other swages operate in drop or lever presses upon sheet-metal; forming the struck-up tinware, such as pie-pans, [etc.].
8. Comb.: † struck-blind adj.
c. 1611. Chapman, Iliad, V. 300. It … made th’ Heroe stay His strooke-blind temples on his hand.
