, or Stryke, a measure, containing 4 bushels, or half a quarter.
STRIKING-wheel, in a clock, the same as that by some called the pin-wheel, because of the pins which are placed on the round or rim, the number of which is the quotient of the pinion divided by the pinion of the detent-wheel. In sixteen-day clocks, the first or great wheel is usually the pin-wheel; but in such as go 8 days, the second wheel is the pin-wheel, or strikingwheel.
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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.
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