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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. An incidental or sly stroke; a side-blow; a ruse.

Wiktionary

  1. n. An accidental or slyly given stroke; a side-blow or side-wind; a ruse.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. An accidental or a slyly given stroke.

Etymologies

  1. From by- +‎ stroke. (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “The reason for this by-stroke she could not have told: the detail she imparted did not differ substantially from those that had gone before. —”

    The Getting of Wisdom

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. stroak
  2. outstroke
  3. instroke
  4. drive
  5. lap
  6. cut
  7. upstroke
  8. flick
  9. downstroke
  10. draw
  11. lick
  12. blow
  13. miscue
  14. putt
  15. dog paddle
  16. breaststroke
  17. backstroke
  18. carom
  19. swing
  20. sidestroke
  21. approach
  22. beat
  23. swipe
  24. treading water
  25. keystroke
  26. return
  27. sclaff
  28. serve
  29. service
  30. undercut
  31. bow
  32. butterfly
  33. crawl
  34. hook
  35. slice
  36. fondle
  37. front crawl
  38. haemorrhagic stroke
  39. hemorrhagic stroke
  40. ischaemic stroke
  41. ischemic stroke
  1. key stroke
  2. shank
  3. Australian crawl
  4. butterfly stroke
  5. caress
  6. good luck
  7. otto cycle
  8. lead
  9. four-stroke engine
  10. four-stroke internal-combustion engine
  11. mulligan
  12. stroke
  13. indicator
  14. rend
  15. excursion
  16. internal-combustion
  17. cushioned hammer
  18. cut-off
  19. clearance space
  20. penalty stroke
  21. quarter-shot
  22. release-point
  23. ten-strike
  24. bricole
  25. master-prize
  26. straik
  27. strake
  28. stroke-gear
  29. stroke-oarsman
  30. strokesman
  31. 1oz
  32. counterstroke
  33. expansion-engine
  34. cerebrovascular accident
  35. cerebral accident
  36. ace
  37. beat of a watch
  38. coup de grace
  39. crab
  40. odd
  41. overhead
  1. strike
  2. atmospheric
  3. backcast
  4. click
  5. coup
  6. cushion
  7. lash
  8. misfortune
  9. stripe
  10. sweep
  11. end-port
  12. feather-stroke
  13. prerelease
  14. slip
  15. steam-lead
  16. suction-stroke
  17. tallow-cup
  18. flip-flap
  19. pelt
  20. massé shot
  21. fuel injection
  22. fuel injector
  23. divot
  24. down-bow
  25. indicator card
  26. like
  27. dead-stroke
  28. deathblow
  29. death knell
  30. dent
  31. diesel
  32. ding
  33. dingdong theory
  34. dint
  35. ictus
  36. impact
  37. let
  38. firk
  39. counterbuff
  40. coy
  41. crawl stroke
  1. hair stroke
  2. atmospheric hammer
  3. hit
  4. knell
  5. knock
  6. clap
  7. clearance
  8. guillotine
  9. Caballine spring
  10. chop
  11. governor cut-off
  12. coronade
  13. draw-stroke
  14. drive-off
  15. exhaust-lead
  16. forehand
  17. glance-stroke
  18. half-shot
  19. hook-stroke
  20. ignition-point
  21. inboard
  22. mid-stroke
  23. nail-driver
  24. off-drive
  25. passing-stroke
  26. plankton-pump
  27. poke
  28. raspberrying
  29. sand-tube
  30. sclaffy
  31. smash
  32. stroke-hole
  33. tail-rod
  34. tee-shot
  35. trudgen
  36. up-bow
  37. vapor-bound
  38. temple
  39. thunder-stroke
  40. tig
  41. trait
  1. wap
  2. wing-beat
  3. wing-stroke
  4. yank
  5. yerk
  6. blastment
  7. bogey
  8. buffet
  9. by-stroke
  10. by-wipe
  11. gird
  12. martellement
  13. massé
  14. much
  15. pandy
  16. pat
  17. peck
  18. percussive
  19. recover
  20. reredemain
  21. roquet
  22. scart
  23. stound
  24. stroke-oar
  25. stun
  26. swap
  27. alif
  28. Bisk
  29. by-touch
  30. catch-piece
  31. chime
  32. compression-curve
  33. c8205771927048892665
  34. half volley
  35. medal play
  36. follow-through
  37. backfire
  38. backhand
  39. baff
  40. bagging
  41. dead center

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