Sekirov Dictionary

downstrike

noun 8
verb 8
adjective 1
adverb 1
forms 6

noun8

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A blow by a hand or weapon that occurs with a downward striking motion.
- Attacker executes a downstrike. Defender performs a two-hand catch, blocks, rotates through and performs an elbow-break with accompanying shoulder dislocation. — 1977
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A bolt of lightning that touches ground.
- Seventeen hundred downstrikes of lightning later, destruction reigns over southwest Oregon. — 1994
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A (usually unintended) branch of current that arcs downward to ground.
- Besides forming new cores, arcs may also form branches, and "downstrikes" are liable to be particularly troublesome. — 1959
A downward plucking motion on a stringed instrument.
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A downstroke; a downward movement that terminates in striking something.
- It is sort of like paying a carpenter for the downstrike of his hammer and saying the upstroke is on his on time. — 1965
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A type of manual typewriter that causes the letters to print on the downstroke of the keys and retract as the key rises.
- These machines had straight-line keyboards and a semicircular downstrike typebasket that made for easy visibility by the typist. — 1985
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A variety of various devices that operates primarily by a downward striking action.
- Sizes now available in vertical downstrike balers are: 72 inches, 60 inches and 36 inches. — 1974
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A line that is drawn with a downward stroke.
- I have marked the accented syllable by the Downstrike, leaving the unaccented ones to the Upstrike — 1911

verb8

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To strike down; to knock down, kill, or cripple.
- Nearly twenty years have elapsed since my friend was downstruck by his attack. — 1862
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To dismay, reject, demote, or render lowly.
- 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. — 2010
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To strike from above.
- This was a downstriking hammer which hit the strings at a point where a silk band revolved against them, activated by a treadle. — 1982
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To move downward in a striking motion.
- 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. — 2006
To play a stringed instrument with a downward plucking motion.
To arc to ground in a downstrike.
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To go in a downward direction.
- A parent-child dialogue is a downstriking dialogue and a child-parent dialogue is an upstriking dialogue. — 1976
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To point (finish a joint) by pressing mortar in at the bottom.
- 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. — 2003

adjective1

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downward or further down.
- The Earlies Gap Biotite Gneiss may therefore indicate a downstrike lithologic change resulting from original variations of the protolith and from a more thorough. — 1959

adverb1

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In a downward direction
- The spring is downstrike from a fairly large area of low perennial stream density. — 1985

forms

downstruck · downstricken · downstriking · downstrikes · more downstrike · most downstrike

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