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Deathblow :: Deathblow (n.) A mortal or crushing blow; a stroke or event which kills or destroys.

Stripe :: Stripe (n.) A stroke or blow made with a whip, rod, scourge, or the like, such as usually leaves a mark..

Strokeed :: Stroke (v. t.) Appetite.

Blow :: Blow (n.) A forcible stroke with the hand, fist, or some instrument, as a rod, a club, an ax, or a sword..

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

Throw :: Throw (n.) The extreme movement given to a sliding or vibrating reciprocating piece by a cam, crank, eccentric, or the like; travel; stroke; as, the throw of a slide valve. Also, frequently, the length of the radius of a crank, or the eccentricity of an eccentric; as, the throw of the crank of a steam engine is equal to half the stroke of the piston..

Knock :: Knock (n.) A blow; a stroke with something hard or heavy; a jar.

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

Sling :: Sling (v. t.) The act or motion of hurling as with a sling; a throw; figuratively, a stroke..

Insolation :: Insolation (n.) A sunstroke.

Knock :: Knock (n.) A stroke, as on a door for admittance; a rap..

Hit :: Hit (v. t.) To reach with a stroke or blow; to strike or touch, usually with force; especially, to reach or touch (an object aimed at)..

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

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

Flip-flap :: Flip-flap (n.) The repeated stroke of something long and loose.

Strike :: Strike (v. t.) To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.

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

Buffet :: Buffet (v. i.) A blow from any source, or that which affects like a blow, as the violence of winds or waves; a stroke; an adverse action; an affliction; a trial; adversity..

Strike :: Strike (v. t.) To stamp or impress with a stroke; to coin; as, to strike coin from metal: to strike dollars at the mint..

Sweep :: Sweep (n.) The compass or range of a stroke; as, a long sweep..

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