Emily Dickinson Lexicon

STRIKE, n.

1. An instrument with a straight edge for leveling a measure of grain, salt and the like, for scraping of what is above the level of the top. – America.
2. A bushel; four pecks. [Local.] – Tusser.
3. A measure of four bushels or half a quarter. [Local.] – Encyc.
4. The act of combining and demanding higher wages for work. [Modern English.]
5. In geology, the direction in which the edge of a stratum appears at the surface. Strike of flax, a handful that may be hackled at once. [Local.]