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Pelt :: Pelt (n.) A blow or stroke from something thrown.

Mangle :: Mangle (v. t.) To cut or bruise with repeated blows or strokes, making a ragged or torn wound, or covering with wounds; to tear in cutting; to cut in a bungling manner; to lacerate; to mutilate..

Roll :: Roll (v.) The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.

Flourish :: Flourish (v. i.) To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures..

Indicator :: Indicator (n.) An instrument which draws a diagram showing the varying pressure in the cylinder of an engine or pump at every point of the stroke. It consists of a small cylinder communicating with the engine cylinder and fitted with a piston which the varying pressure drives upward more or less against the resistance of a spring. A lever imparts motion to a pencil which traces the diagram on a card wrapped around a vertical drum which is turned back and forth by a string connected with the pist

Stricture :: Stricture (n.) A stroke; a glance; a touch.

Stroke :: Stroke (v. t.) The movement, in either direction, of the piston plunger, piston rod, crosshead, etc., as of a steam engine or a pump, in which these parts have a reciprocating motion; as, the forward stroke of a piston; also, the entire distance passed through, as by a piston, in such a movement; as, the piston is at half stroke..

Stroking :: Stroking (n.) The act of rubbing gently with the hand, or of smoothing; a stroke..

Paddle :: Paddle (v. t.) To pat or stroke amorously, or gently..

Dingdong :: Dingdong (n.) The sound of, or as of, repeated strokes on a metallic body, as a bell; a repeated and monotonous sound..

Skelp :: Skelp (n.) A blow; a smart stroke.

Scoop :: Scoop (n.) A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.

Count-wheel :: Count-wheel (n.) The wheel in a clock which regulates the number of strokes.

Ten-strike :: Ten-strike (n.) Any quick, decisive stroke or act..

Squabash :: Squab (v. i.) To fall plump; to strike at one dash, or with a heavy stroke..

Strokesman :: Stroker (n.) One who strokes; also, one who pretends to cure by stroking..

Cut :: Cut (v. i.) To make a stroke with a whip.

Sun-struck :: Sunstroke (n.) Any affection produced by the action of the sun on some part of the body; especially, a sudden prostration of the physical powers, with symptoms resembling those of apoplexy, occasioned by exposure to excessive heat, and often terminating fatally; coup de soleil..

Upstroke :: Upstroke (n.) An upward stroke, especially the stroke, or line, made by a writing instrument when moving upward, or from the body of the writer, or a line corresponding to the part of a letter thus made..

Clock :: Clock (n.) A machine for measuring time, indicating the hour and other divisions by means of hands moving on a dial plate. Its works are moved by a weight or a spring, and it is often so constructed as to tell the hour by the stroke of a hammer on a bell. It is not adapted, like the watch, to be carried on the person..

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