stroke
(sports) the act of swinging or striking at a ball with a club or racket or bat or cue or hand
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,730 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 6,081 times across 139,755 chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- (sports) the act of swinging or striking at a ball with a club or racket or bat or cue or hand also: shot it took two strokes to get out of the bunkera good shot requires good balance and tempo
- the maximum movement available to a pivoted or reciprocating piece by a cam also: throw, cam stroke
- a sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain also: apoplexy, cerebrovascular accident, CVA
- a light touch
- a light touch with the hands also: stroking
- (golf) the unit of scoring in golf is the act of hitting the ball with a club Nicklaus won by three strokes
stroke in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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The stroke was repeated a second time.
Windsor Castle · William Harrison Ainsworth · Chapter 2
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After that last great stroke Death seemed to be resting on his laurels.
The Mahatma and the Hare: A Dream Story · H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard · Chapter 2
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Above his head, on the break of the poop, the night-watchman rang a double stroke.
The nigger of the "Narcissus" · Joseph Conrad · Chapter 1
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It was this excellent man who came at the first stroke of the bell to open the door.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 2
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He nodded, and brought her head round with a sharp stroke, and in a trice we were at the landing-stage again.
News from Nowhere · William Morris · Chapter 2