strike work

Verb

 * 1)  To go on strike.
 * 2) * 1871,, journal entry dated 11February, 1871, in Horace Waller (ed.), The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, London: John Murray, 1874, Volume2, Chapter4, 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.
 * 1)  To stop working (for a break, at the end of the work day, etc.).
 * 2) * 1848,, letter dated 28November, 1848 in and  (eds.), The Letters of Charles Dickens, London: Chapman and Hall, Volume1, 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.
 * 1) * c. 1930s, Bert Higgins, interview transcribed in Federal Writers’ Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of Arkansas, Slave Narratives, Volume2, Part3, 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.
 * 1)  To stop functioning.
 * 2) * 1845,, letter dated 28January, 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,
 * 1) * c. 1930s, Bert Higgins, interview transcribed in Federal Writers’ Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of Arkansas, Slave Narratives, Volume2, Part3, 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.
 * 1)  To stop functioning.
 * 2) * 1845,, letter dated 28January, 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,
 * 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,