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Beat :: Beat (v. i.) To make a succession of strokes on a drum; as, the drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters..

Cloy :: Cloy (v. t.) To stroke with a claw.

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

Stroke :: Stroke (v. t.) A sudden attack of disease; especially, a fatal attack; a severe disaster; any affliction or calamity, especially a sudden one; as, a stroke of apoplexy; the stroke of death..

Toll :: Toll (v. t.) To cause to sound, as a bell, with strokes slowly and uniformly repeated; as, to toll the funeral bell..

Drum :: Drum (v. i.) To beat with the fingers, as with drumsticks; to beat with a rapid succession of strokes; to make a noise like that of a beaten drum; as, the ruffed grouse drums with his wings..

Handystroke :: Handystroke (n.) A blow with the hand.

Fit :: Fit (n.) A sudden and violent attack of a disorder; a stroke of disease, as of epilepsy or apoplexy, which produces convulsions or unconsciousness; a convulsion; a paroxysm; hence, a period of exacerbation of a disease; in general, an attack of disease; as, a fit of sickness..

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

Strike :: Strike (v. t.) To cause to sound by one or more beats; to indicate or notify by audible strokes; as, the clock strikes twelve; the drums strike up a march..

Paddle :: Paddle (v. i.) To use the hands or fingers in toying; to make caressing strokes.

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

Siriasis :: Siriasis (n.) A sunstroke.

Cut :: Cut (n.) A stroke or blow or cutting motion with an edged instrument; a stroke or blow with a whip.

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..

Bagging :: Bagging (n.) Reaping peas, beans, wheat, etc., with a chopping stroke..

Pat :: Pat (n.) A light, quik blow or stroke with the fingers or hand; a tap..

Pull :: Pull (n.) A kind of stroke by which a leg ball is sent to the off side, or an off ball to the side..

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

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

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