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

Whop :: Whop (n.) A blow, or quick, smart stroke..

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

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..

Lick :: Lick (v.) A quick and careless application of anything, as if by a stroke of the tongue, or of something which acts like a tongue; as, to put on colors with a lick of the brush. Also, a small quantity of any substance so applied..

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

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..

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..

Stroke :: Stroke (v. t.) The result of effect of a striking; injury or affliction; soreness.

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..

Beat :: Beat (n.) A recurring stroke; a throb; a pulsation; as, a beat of the heart; the beat of the pulse..

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

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

Insolation :: Insolation (n.) A sunstroke.

By-stroke :: By-stroke (n.) An accidental or a slyly given stroke.

Stroke :: Stroke (v. t.) One of a series of beats or movements against a resisting medium, by means of which movement through or upon it is accomplished; as, the stroke of a bird's wing in flying, or an oar in rowing, of a skater, swimmer, etc..

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

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

Sideration :: Sideration (n.) The state of being siderated, or planet-struck; esp., blast in plants; also, a sudden and apparently causeless stroke of disease, as in apoplexy or paralysis..

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..

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