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Stroke

noun

1.

(sports) the act of swinging or striking at a ball with a club or racket or bat or cue or hand. Synonym: shot. "A good shot requires good balance and tempo" , "He left me an almost impossible shot"

2.

The maximum movement available to a pivoted or reciprocating piece by a cam. Synonyms: cam stroke, throw.

3.

A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain. Synonyms: apoplexy, cerebrovascular accident, CVA.

4.

A light touch.

5.

A light touch with the hands. Synonym: stroking.

6.

(golf) the unit of scoring in golf is the act of hitting the ball with a club.

7.

The oarsman nearest the stern of the shell who sets the pace for the rest of the crew.

8.

Anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause. Synonyms: accident, chance event, fortuity. "The pregnancy was a stroke of bad luck" , "It was due to an accident or fortuity"

9.

A punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information. Synonyms: diagonal, separatrix, slash, solidus, virgule.

10.

A mark made on a surface by a pen, pencil, or paintbrush.

11.

Any one of the repeated movements of the limbs and body used for locomotion in swimming or rowing.

12.

A single complete movement.

verb

(past & past part. strokeed; pres. part. strokeing)

1.

Touch lightly and repeatedly, as with brushing motions.

2.

Strike a ball with a smooth blow.

3.

Row at a particular rate.

4.

Treat gingerly or carefully.

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"Stroke" Quotes from Famous Books

... as well as I could, that I desired his son might be pardoned. The father complied, and the lad took his seat again, whereupon I went to him and kissed his hand, which my master took, and made him stroke me gently with it. ...

— The Junior Classics, V5 • Edited by William Patten

... necessary to be punctual to a second, for there everybody breathes by the State-house clock If you make an appointment to meet anywhere, your body must be in a right line with the frame of the door at the instant the first stroke of the great clock sounds. If you are a moment later, your character is gone. It is useless to plead the evidence of your watch, or detention by a friend. You read your condemnation in the action of the old fellows who, with ...

— The Laws of Etiquette • A Gentleman

... pinions six their face in the glory of him who Hung his masonry pendant on naught, when the world he created. Earth declareth his might, and the firmament uttereth his glory. Races blossom and die, and stars fall downward from heaven, Downward like withered leaves: at the last stroke of midnight, millenniums Lay themselves down at his feet, and he sees them, but counts them as nothing. Who shall stand in his presence? The wrath of the Judge is terrific, Casting the insolent down at a glance. When he speaks in his anger Hillocks skip ...

— The Song of Hiawatha - An Epic Poem • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

... stroke. The mention of the terrible skipper and the skillful insinuation that he was one of them, made them straighten and ...

— Harrigan • Max Brand

... is finished and done with, but now some column commanders wish to push down into the south of the province and isolate the Court, if possible. Meetings are being held the whole time, but as Waldersee is coming up, nothing is to be done until his arrival. By one ingenious stroke—the sudden flight of the Court—the Chinese have turned the tables on allied Europe and made us all ridiculous. Any one might have anticipated something of this—there is a precedent in the histories. Yet history is only ...

— Indiscreet Letters From Peking • B. L. Putman Weale

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