Possible Clues:

• Strikes hard
• Afflicts with a heavy blow
• Inflicts a heavy blow on
• Injures
• It strikes one that there might be so very little in a ship
• It strikes one that there's little grub in the ship
• Very little scores a hit among the saints
• It strikes you that there's little grub to be had in the ship
• Clobbers, biblically
• Strikes down, as an angry god would