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To go on strike.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: India, dated
Examples
- 1871, David Livingstone, journal entry dated 11 February, 1871, in Horace Waller (ed.), The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, London: John Murray, 1874, Volume 2, Chapter 4, p. 99, Men struck work for higher wages: I consented to give them six dollars a month if they behaved well; if ill I diminish it, so we hope to start to-morrow.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: strike
Antonyms: none provided
To stop working (for a break, at the end of the work day, etc.).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated
Examples
- 1848, Charles Dickens, letter dated 28 November, 1848 in Georgina Hogarth and Mamie Dickens (eds.), The Letters of Charles Dickens, London: Chapman and Hall, Volume 1, p. 203, Come down on Friday. There is a train leaves London Bridge at two—gets here at four. By that time I shall be ready to strike work.
- c. 1930s, Bert Higgins, interview transcribed in Federal Writers’ Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of Arkansas, Slave Narratives, Volume 2, Part 3, Washington: Library of Congress, 1941, When we got free old master read it to us out of the paper. We was out in the field and I was totin’ water. Some of ’em struck work and went to the house and set around a while but they soon went back to the field. And a few days after that he hired ’em.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: quit, call it a quits, pack it in
Antonyms: none provided
To stop functioning.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated, figuratively
Examples
- 1845, Robert Browning, letter dated 28 January, 1845 in The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, 1845-1846, New York: Harper, 1899, p. 9, Your books lie on my table here, at arm’s length from me, in this old room where I sit all day: and when my head aches or wanders or strikes work, as it now or then will, I take my chance for either green-covered volume,
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
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