strich

See also: Strich

English

Alternative forms

strick

Etymology

Compare Latin strix, strigs (“a screech owl”).

Noun

strich (plural striches)

(obsolete) An owl.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  The lether-winged Bat, dayes enimy, / The ruefull Strich, still waiting on the bere, / The Whistler shrill, that who so heares, doth dy […]

Anagrams

Christ, christ, criths, trichs

German

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Verb

strich

first/third-person singular preterite of streichen

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