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

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

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..

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

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..

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

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

Ceriph :: Ceriph (n.) One of the fine lines of a letter, esp. one of the fine cross strokes at the top and bottom of letters..

Travel :: Travel (n.) The length of stroke of a reciprocating piece; as, the travel of a slide valve..

Coy :: Coy (v. t.) To caress with the hand; to stroke.

Stroke :: Stroke (v. t.) Power; influence.

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

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..

Guillotine :: Guillotine (n.) A machine for beheading a person by one stroke of a heavy ax or blade, which slides in vertical guides, is raised by a cord, and let fall upon the neck of the victim..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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