m. I. a strickle, an implement for smoothing corn in a measure, I :-- Stricilum trocleis, rotis modicis, Txts. 100, 994. [Hic modius a buschylle, hic corus a mesur, hoc os[t]orium a strikylle, Wrt. Voc. i. 233, col. 2 (15th cent.). Strykylle hostorium, Cath. Ang. 369. In note I on this page are given the following: 'Rouleau the round pin, stritchell, or strickle used in the measuring of corn, etc. Lorgaulté the strickle used in the measuring of corne' Cotgrave. 'When wee goe to take up come for the mill, the first thinge wee doe is to looke out poakes, then the bushel and strickle.' Farming Books of H. Best, 1641. II. that from which liquid flows (? II), a breast that gives milk, a fount :-- Of stricele ubere, Germ. 390, 67. Of feówer stricelum bis binis de fontibus, Wrt. Voc. ii. 12, 39.