strokes

Noun

stroke (plural strokes)

1. An act of hitting; a blow, a hit.
   • a stroke on the chin

   Synonyms:

   beat, dash

   1. An act of striking with a weapon; a blow.
      • Singapore plans to cane scammers and scam mules, with mandatory caning of at least six strokes for scammers and discretionary caning for mules.
   2. A single movement with a tool; also, an impact of a tool on an object.
      • [W]hen a man goeth into the wood with his neighbor, to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a ſtroke with the axe to cut downe the tree, and the head ſlippeth from the helue, and lighteth vpon his neighbour that he die, he ſhall flee vnto one of thoſe cities, and liue: […]1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Deuteronomy 19:5, column 2
   3. The hitting of a bell or similar by the clapper or hammer of a clock; the sound thereof; the time when this occurs.
      • on the stroke of midnight
   4. The action of hitting the ball with the bat; a shot.
   5. A single act of striking at the ball with a club; also, at matchplay, a shot deducted from a player's score at a hole as a result of a handicapping system.

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