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strick

(strɪk)

(Textiles) textiles any bast fibres preparatory to being made into slivers

[C15 stric, perhaps of Low German origin; compare Middle Dutch stric, Middle Low German strik rope]

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

Strick

a bundle of broken hemp, 1616; of flax or jute; a grain measure (one bushel), 1893. See also strike.

Examples: strick of barley, 1530; of coals, 1576; of corn, 1421; of flax; of malt, 1600; of silk fibres, 1887.

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Strick got him into the Centro-Euro-Africa Protectorate.

Said Corkran, when he had explained how it felt to command a native Infantry regiment on the border: "The Stricks are coming for to-night-with their boy."

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Strick, professor of neurobiology and co-director of the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, Pitt School of Medicine.

Two key brain regions work in tandem like integrated network

Executive producers, Wesley Strick, Ryan Carroll, Roland Carroll, Neil L.

Love Is the Drug

West also proved best in the B game with Eli Walker (Llwchwr), Michael Strick (Swansea), Natalie Payne (Aberavon) and Tom Davies (Bridgend) scoring tries in the 24-15 victory.

Rugby Union: West prove too strong for rivals and complete the double; Dominant back row prove the key to victory

The Irish Film Censor rejected the movie in 1967, when officials deemed director Joseph Strick's adaption too sexually explicit.

CENSORED; Irish audiences get to see Ulysses film after 33-year ban

Senior author Peter Strick, Ph.D., professor in the department of neurobiology at the School of Medicine and senior career scientist at the VA Medical Center said that the majority of animals, including cats, rats and some monkeys, the old primary motor cortex controls movement indirectly through the circuitry of the spinal cord.

New brain area evolved to help humans with complex movements

"There is a feeling that a line has been crossed so far" in their direction that it takes a good shove back to get it back in the other direction," says Allan Mayer, managing director of Strick & Company.