downstrike
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: downstrikes
form: downstriking
form: downstruck
form: downstricken
Etymology: From down + strike.
Senses: examples: text: Nearly twenty years have elapsed since my friend was downstruck by his attack.
ref: 1862, Half-year abstract of medical sciences - Volume 35, page 106:
text: God does not downstrike me, a god ?
ref: 1872, Herbert Randolph, So far [poems]., page 45:
text: There too the downstruck foe must yield his loos'ning grip.
ref: 1877, John Dryden Corbet, The Collected Poems of John Dryden Corbet - Volume 1, page 318:
glosses: To strike down; to knock down, kill, or cripple.
examples: text: Did you imagine us bigguns your servants, mebbe, or some such downstruck types?' 'Nobody were downstruck there. They were all with telling me what to do.
ref: 2010, Margo Lanagan, Tender Morsels, →ISBN, page 108:
text: I tried to animate myself to behave a little more social, turning in circles a couple of times, making a slinky stepping pattern, and generally quickening my behavior in order to appear more alert and excited. I was not picked. I was downstruck. I felt the world had collapsed for me!
ref: 2011, Jan Gero, Me on Me, →ISBN:
text: Instead of the downstricken criminal I had dreamed of, there stood before me a man of society thinking about the affairs of his club.
ref: 2012, Julian Hawthorne, The Most Interesting Stories of All Nations, →ISBN, page 247:
glosses: To dismay, reject, demote, or render lowly.
examples: text: While a number of successful interruptions were made with this chute, it exhibited a proneness to "downstrike." The arc would run down one of the baffles onto one of the arcing contacts and short- circuit a portion of the metallic baffle stack.
ref: 1962 -, Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, page 204:
glosses: To arc to ground in a downstrike.
raw_tags: of current or lightning
examples: text: This was a downstriking hammer which hit the strings at a point where a silk band revolved against them, activated by a treadle.
ref: 1982, David Wainwright, Broadwood, by appointment: a history, page 55:
text: The wood in the Luberon looked back at him, the shafts of downstriking sunlight, the tiny scrap of fluttering light.
ref: 2010, Diane Duane, Dark Mirror, →ISBN:
text: Tim felt himself lowered a few inches, his feet finding the ground again, and, as Debuffier's hand reared back to deliver a paralyzing blow to the head, Tim rotated in, Green Beret style, a downstriking punch to the groin, quick and hard like a bear river-plunging for fish.
ref: 2013, Gregg Hurwitz, The Kill Clause, →ISBN:
text: The boy glimmered Among the hollowed darkness of the rocks, Shot through the shallow places laughing, Stood in the sunlight, high up, And like a god suspended in green air He followed falling water and downstruck.
ref: 2014, May Sarton, The Land of Silence: And Other Poems, →ISBN:
text: The car jerked away just as Piyal was knocked down, and looking up the last he saw was so many downstriking, hammering feet.
ref: 2014, Randy Boyagoda, Beggar's Feast, →ISBN:
text: As one might imagine, the design of a downstriking action is very challenging since gravity cannot be used to help bring the hammer back to its “ready” position in preparation for a subsequent note.
ref: 2016, Nicholas J. Giordano, Physics of the Piano, →ISBN:
glosses: To strike from above.
examples: text: Parsival bounced upright and as the fellow reined close and chopped a swordstroke at his head the young knight, forgetting his own weapon in his rage, caught the downstriking arm with both hands and heaved the shocked man up out of his seat, across his own horse's neck, and spinning down the hill after his companion who was still rolling, quite slowly now, in the lush green field.
ref: 1984, Richard Monaco, Parsival, Or a Knight's Tale, →ISBN, page 98:
text: For example, a short card requiring minimum carding of short fibres may be designed to take fibres from the feed rollers using a downstriking licker straight to the cylinder.
ref: 2006, S J Russell, Handbook of Nonwovens, →ISBN, page 41:
text: Quill stood at the railing and watched the bird slowly fade into the distance, swooping gloriously under bridges, its downstriking wingtips all but flicking the water.
ref: 2013, Roger Levy, Icarus, →ISBN:
glosses: To move downward in a stiking motion.
examples: text: Those which are full of spindly, ingrowing wood we will thin rigorously, working with one of the nursery models before our mind's eye, and taking care that when our task is done, not a single ingrowing or downstriking shoot is left on the tree.
ref: 1917, Walter Page Wright, Food, Fruit & Flowers, page 202:
text: A parent-child dialogue is a downstriking dialogue and a child-parent dialogue is an upstriking dialogue.
ref: 1976, Robert E. Longacre, An Anatomy of Speech Notions, page 195:
glosses: To go in a downward direction.
examples: text: There was no trace of plaster inside the stair tower in the Barns: most of the interior was in brick, and the mortar pointing was downstruck and usually scored.
ref: 2003, Essex Archaeology and History:
text: A struck joint is made by running the trowel along the joint before the mortar is hard, either pressing in at the top: upstruck (or weathered), which exposes the mortar to the weather, or pressing in at the bottom: downstruck (or struck).
ref: 2012, Sarah Gunn, Stone House Construction, →ISBN, page 112:
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
masonry
glosses: To point (finish a joint) by pressing mortar in at the bottom.
examples: text: Armstrong doesn't use the story-within-a-story motif; his version begins with a New Orleans funeral jazz slow shuffle, picking up the tempo at 0.08, led by Armstrong's trumpet, trailed by the unmistakably wildly wandering New Orleans clarinet, skeletal barrelhouse piano, downstruck banjo and the ragged-shoed chuf-chuf-chuf of the melancholic New Orleans swing.
ref: 2010, Peter Mills, Hymns to the Silence: Inside the Words and Music of Van Morrison, →ISBN:
glosses: To play a stringed instrument with a downward plucking motion.