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Single-acting :: Single-acting (a.) Having simplicity of action; especially (Mach.), acting or exerting force during strokes in one direction only; -- said of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc..

Hack :: Hack (v. t.) To cut irregulary, without skill or definite purpose; to notch; to mangle by repeated strokes of a cutting instrument; as, to hack a post..

Clap :: Clap (n.) A single, sudden act or motion; a stroke; a blow..

Lash :: Lash (n.) A stroke with a whip, or anything pliant and tough; as, the culprit received thirty-nine lashes..

Masse Shot :: Masse shot (n.) A stroke made with the cue held vertically.

Stroke :: Stroke (v. t.) The rate of succession of stroke; as, a quick stroke..

Stroke :: Stroke (v. t.) A powerful or sudden effort by which something is done, produced, or accomplished; also, something done or accomplished by such an effort; as, a stroke of genius; a stroke of business; a master stroke of policy..

Cut-off :: Cut-off (n.) The valve gearing or mechanism by which steam is cut off from entering the cylinder of a steam engine after a definite point in a stroke, so as to allow the remainder of the stroke to be made by the expansive force of the steam already let in. See Expansion gear, under Expansion..

Toll :: Toll (n.) The sound of a bell produced by strokes slowly and uniformly repeated.

Flourish :: Flourish (n.) A fanciful stroke of the pen or graver; a merely decorative figure.

Rasp :: Rasp (v.) A coarse file, on which the cutting prominences are distinct points raised by the oblique stroke of a sharp punch, instead of lines raised by a chisel, as on the true file..

Counterstroke :: Counterstroke (n.) A stroke or blow in return.

Ding :: Ding (n.) A thump or stroke, especially of a bell..

Whop :: Whop (n.) A blow, or quick, smart stroke..

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..

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

Down :: Down (a.) Downward; going down; sloping; as, a down stroke; a down grade; a down train on a railway..

Stroke :: Stroke (v. t.) To give a finely fluted surface to.

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

Tact :: Tact (n.) The stroke in beating time.

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