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1 1983 FROUDE 10 We leaved twillingate and steered away N.E. until we struck the ice...so we leaved the vessel in our small boats we got a few seals in the fore noon.
3 1986 SAUNDERS 127 That day, seals were all the talk for they had just struck in around Comfort Cove and Newstead. 1989 Evening Telegram 16 June, p. 3 Caplin...usually strike in first in St Mary's Bay.
5 Phr strike off: in preparing timber for sawing to mark the log with a 'reddening line'; strike up.
1981 SPARKES 2 To 'strike off' a log, the string was stretched taut between points at opposite ends of the log and then snapped by a pinch with finger and thumb. The result was a perfectly straight red line from one end of the log to the other. 1984 POWELL 77 Now it was about time to strike up my traps. 1988 Evening Telegram 17 May, p. 8 I had it on my mind about a rabbit slip that I never had struck up yet the spring and I wanted to get in [the country] and see to that.
