Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An incidental or sly stroke; a side-blow; a ruse.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An accidental or a slyly given stroke.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
accidental orslyly givenstroke ; a side-blow or side-wind; aruse .
Etymologies
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From by- + stroke.
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Examples
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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. —
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