Strike

1. n. The extortion of money, or the attempt to extort money, by threat of injury; blackmailing.
2. v. t. To touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or with an instrument; to smite; to give a blow to, either with the hand or with any instrument or missile.
3. v. t. To come in collision with; to strike against; as, a bullet struck him; the wave struck the boat amidships; the ship struck a reef.
4. v. t. To give, as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a force to; to dash; to cast.
5. v. t. To stamp or impress with a stroke; to coin; as, to strike coin from metal: to strike dollars at the mint.
6. v. t. To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate; to set in the earth; as, a tree strikes its roots deep.
7. v. t. To punish; to afflict; to smite.
8. v. t. To cause to sound by one or more beats; to indicate or notify by audible strokes; as, the clock strikes twelve; the drums strike up a march.
9. v. t. To lower; to let or take down; to remove; as, to strike sail; to strike a flag or an ensign, as in token of surrender; to strike a yard or a topmast in a gale; to strike a tent; to strike the centering of an arch.
10. v. t. To make a sudden impression upon, as by a blow; to affect sensibly with some strong emotion; as, to strike the mind, with surprise; to strike one with wonder, alarm, dread, or horror.
11. 1n. 1 The extortion of money, or the attempt to extort money, by threat of injury; blackmailing.
12. 1v. t. 1 To touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or with an instrument; to smite; to give a blow to, either with the hand or with any instrument or missile.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.