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Peck :: Peck (v. i.) To make strokes with the beak, or with a pointed instrument..

Apoplectical :: Apoplectical (a.) Relating to apoplexy; affected with, inclined to, or symptomatic of, apoplexy; as, an apoplectic person, medicine, habit or temperament, symptom, fit, or stroke..

Havelock :: Havelock (n.) A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke..

Toll :: Toll (v. i.) To sound or ring, as a bell, with strokes uniformly repeated at intervals, as at funerals, or in calling assemblies, or to announce the death of a person..

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

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

Fluke :: Fluke (n.) An accidental and favorable stroke at billiards (called a scratch in the United States); hence, any accidental or unexpected advantage; as, he won by a fluke..

Chopping :: Chopping (n.) Act of cutting by strokes.

Stroke :: Stroke (v. t.) Hence, by extension, an addition or amandment to a written composition; a touch; as, to give some finishing strokes to an essay..

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

Stroke :: Stroke (v. t.) The act of striking; a blow; a hit; a knock; esp., a violent or hostile attack made with the arm or hand, or with an instrument or weapon..

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

Stroke :: Strokeing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Strok.

Baff :: Baff (n.) A blow; a stroke.

Smart :: Smart (v. i.) Causing a smart; pungent; pricking; as, a smart stroke or taste..

Dabble :: Dabble (v. t.) To wet by little dips or strokes; to spatter; to sprinkle; to moisten; to wet.

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

Stroker :: Stroke (v. t.) To row the stroke oar of; as, to stroke a boat..

Bloodstroke :: Bloodstroke (n.) Loss of sensation and motion from hemorrhage or congestion in the brain.

Throw :: Throw (n.) A stroke; a blow.

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