stroking

Verb

stroke (third-person singular simple present strokes, present participle stroking, simple past and past participle stroked)

1. (transitive) To draw the horizontal line across the upright part (of the letter t).
2. (transitive) Followed by out or through: to draw a line or lines through (text) to indicate that it is deleted; to cancel, to strike or strike out.
3. (poetic, rare, transitive) Of a bell or clock: to chime or sound to indicate (the hour, the time, etc.).
4. (rare, transitive) To mark (something) with lines or stripes; to stripe.
5. (transitive) To hit or kick (the ball) with a flowing or smooth motion; also, to score (a goal, a point, etc.) by doing so.
6. (transitive) Of a rower or a crew: to row at (a rate of a certain number of strokes (“movements of the oar through water”) per minute).

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