Definitions for stricks

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stricks strick

Spelling: [strik]

IPA: /strɪk/

Stricks is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 130 anagrams from letters in stricks (cikrsst).

Definitions for stricks

noun

1. a group of any of the major bast fibers, as flax or jute, prepared for conversion into sliver form.
2. any of the pieces cut from a layer of carded and combed silk.

Origin of stricks

1375-1425; late Middle English strik bundle of hemp or flax, stick for leveling heaping measures; cf. strickle

Examples for stricks

In the case of hackling by machinery, the flax is first roughed and arranged in stricks, as above described under hand hackling.

At other times, the thin ends of the stricks are also cut off by the same instrument.