Meanings
nounstrich (plural striches)
plural striches · alternative strick
- obsoleteAn owl.
The lether-winged Bat, dayes enimy, / The ruefull Strich, still waiting on the bere, / The Whistler shrill, that who so heares, doth dy […]
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
Origin
Compare Latin strix, strigs (“a screech owl”).
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