Definition of "strike off" []

• Remove from a list (verb)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "During the afternoon he had called Jed Hotchkiss to him and told the topographical engineer to strike off eight maps of the country between the Rappahannock and the Rapidan."
• "Translated into armor, the poulaine fad became downright dangerous: Austrian knights at the battle of Sempach in 1386 were riveted to the spot by their elongated iron shoes and were forced to strike off the points with their swords or be caught flat-footed, so to speak."
• "The road then followed the Gila River for more than a hundred miles, before leaving it to strike off into the desert toward Tucson."