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📏 A leveling tool 📏 To smooth material
strickle

strickle

9.9
A tool with a straight edge that smooths and levels sand or clay
  • noun
  • Archaic
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  • The foundry worker carefully used a strickle to smooth the sand mold.

Examples

  • The carpenter used a strickle to smooth the wood.

  • After shaping the mold, he cleaned the strickle and placed it back on the tool rack.

  • A strickle ensures that the mold has the precise shape required for casting metal parts.

  • He always keeps his strickles in perfect condition.

  • The foundry worker carefully used a strickle to smooth the sand mold.

  • After shaping the mold, he cleaned the strickle and placed it back on the tool rack.

  • A strickle ensures that the mold has the precise shape required for casting metal parts.

How Smooth

strickle
  • Archaic
9.9
float
  • Specialized
1 8.4
trowel
10 4.8
screed
  • Specialized
1 9.9
rake
19 1.0

Surface Forms

strickle singular
strickles plural

Etymology

Strickle is easy to remember if you think of the common word strike or stroke — a helpful image is drawing a straight edge across a surface. So a strickle is the straight-edged tool you use to 'smooth', 'level', or 'shape' sand, grain, or clay.