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

Trait :: Trait (v.) A stroke; a touch.

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

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..

By-wipe :: By-wipe (n.) A secret or side stroke, as of raillery or sarcasm..

Understroke :: Understroke (v. t.) To underline or underscore.

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

Stroke :: Stroke (v. t.) The rower who pulls the stroke oar; the strokesman.

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

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..

Paddle :: Paddle (v. i.) The broad part of a paddle, with which the stroke is made; hence, any short, broad blade, resembling that of a paddle..

Chop :: Chop (n.) The act of chopping; a stroke.

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

Pulsation :: Pulsation (n.) A stroke or impulse by which some medium is affected, as in the propagation of sounds..

Clearance :: Clearance (n.) The distance by which one object clears another, as the distance between the piston and cylinder head at the end of a stroke in a steam engine, or the least distance between the point of a cogwheel tooth and the bottom of a space between teeth of a wheel with which it engages..

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

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

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

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

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..

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