stroke

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• Stroke

  ·vt Power; influence. II. Stroke ·vt To make smooth by rubbing. III. Stroke ·Impf <<Struck>>. IV....

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• stroke

  A pull or single sweep of the oars in rowing; hence the order, "Row a long stroke," which is intende...

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• By-stroke

  ·noun An accidental or a slyly given stroke. ...

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• Crawl stroke

  ·add. ·- A racing stroke, in which the swimmer, lying flat on the water with face submerged, takes a...

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• Dead-stroke

  ·adj Making a stroke without recoil; deadbeat. ...

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• Split stroke

  ·add. ·- In croquet, ·etc., a shot or stroke in which one drives in different directions one's own a...

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• Spot stroke

  ·add. ·- The pocketing of the red ball in a top corner pocket from off its own spot so as to leave t...

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• Trudgen stroke

  ·add. ·- A racing stroke in which a double over-arm motion is used; — so called from its use by an ...

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• government stroke

  n. a lazy style of doingwork, explained in quotations. The phrase is not dead. 1856. W. W. Dobie, ...

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• good stroke

  Used in the sense of considerable; as, 'a good stroke of business.'--Brockett's North County Words. ...

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• long stroke

  The order to a boat's crew to stretch out and hang on her. ...

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• stroke-oar

  The aftermost oar in a boat, from which the others take their time. ...

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• stroke of the sea

  The shock occasioned to a vessel by a heavy sea striking her. ...

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• stroke-side of a boat

  That in which the after starboard rowlock is placed, or where the after oar is rowed if single-banke...

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