outstrike

English

Etymology

out- +‎ strike

Verb

outstrike (third-person singular simple present outstrikes, present participle outstriking, simple past outstruck, past participle outstruck or outstricken)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To strike faster or harder than.
    • c. 1606, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act IV, Scene 6,
      […] This blows my heart:
      If swift thought break it not, a swifter mean
      Shall outstrike thought: but thought will do’t, I feel.
    • 1659, William Davenant, The Siege of Rhodes, London: Henry Herringman, Part 2, Act 5, p. 50,
      Solyman. […] Few Rhodian Knights, making their several stands,
      Out-strike Assemblies of our many Hands.

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