Word Meanings - STROKESMAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The man who rows the aftermost oar, and whose stroke is to be followed by the rest. Totten.

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• WHOSESOEVER
  The possessive of whosoever. See Whosoever.
• STROKER
  One who strokes; also, one who pretends to cure by stroking. Cures worked by Greatrix the stroker. Bp. Warburton.
• FOLLOWING EDGE
  See ABOVE
• STROKE
  1. The act of striking; a blow; a hit; a knock; esp., a violent or hostile attack made with the arm or hand, or with an instrument or weapon. His hand fetcheth a stroke with the ax to cut down the tree. Deut. xix. 5. A fool's lips enter
• STROKESMAN
  The man who rows the aftermost oar, and whose stroke is to be followed by the rest. Totten.
• FOLLOWING
  1. One's followers, adherents, or dependents, collectively. Macaulay. 2. Vocation; business; profession.
• WHOSE
  The possessive case of who or which. See Who, and Which. Whose daughter art thou tell me, I pray thee. Gen. xxiv. 23. The question whose solution I require. Dryden.
• FOLLOWING SURFACE
  See ABOVE
• AFTERMOST
  Nearest the stern; most aft. (more info) Gothic aftumist and aftuma, the last, orig. a superlative of of, with 1. Hindmost; -- opposed to foremost.
• FOLLOWER
  1. One who follows; a pursuer; an attendant; a disciple; a dependent associate; a retainer. 2. A sweetheart; a beau. A. Trollope. The removable flange, or cover, of a piston. See Illust. of Piston. A gland. See Illust. of Stuffing box.
• FOLLOW
  fylgan; akin to D. volgen, OHG. folg, G. folgen, Icel. fylgja, Sw. 1. To go or come after; to move behind in the same path or direction; hence, to go with ; to accompany; to attend. It waves me forth again; I'll follow it. Shak. 2. To endeavor
• CRAWL STROKE
  A racing stroke, in which the swimmer, lying flat on the water with face submerged, takes alternate overhand arm strokes while moving his legs up and down alternately from the knee.
• BY-STROKE
  An accidental or a slyly given stroke.
• SPLIT SHOT; SPLIT STROKE
  In croquet, etc., a shot or stroke in which one drives in different directions one's own and the opponent's ball placed in contact.
• COUNTERSTROKE
  A stroke or blow in return. Spenser.
• DEAD-STROKE
  Making a stroke without recoil; deadbeat. Dead-stroke hammer , a power hammer having a spring interposed between the driving mechanism and the hammer head, or helve, to lessen the recoil of the hammer and reduce the shock upon the mechanism.
• TRUDGEN STROKE
  A racing stroke in which a double over-arm motion is used; -- so called from its use by an amateur named Trudgen, but often erroneously written trudgeon.
• UPSTROKE
  An upward stroke, especially the stroke, or line, made by a writing instrument when moving upward, or from the body of the writer, or a line corresponding to the part of a letter thus made. Some upstroke of an Alpha and Omega. Mrs. Browning.
• INSTROKE
  An inward stroke; specif., in a steam or other engine, a stroke in which the piston is moving away from the crank shaft; -- opposed to outstroke.
• HANDYSTROKE
  A blow with the hand.
• DOWNSTROKE
  A stroke made with a downward motion of the pen or pencil.
• SUNSTROKE
  Any affection produced by the action of the sun on some part of the body; especially, a sudden prostration of the physical powers, with symptoms resembling those of apoplexy, occasioned by exposure to excessive heat, and often terminating fatally;
• SPOT STROKE
  The pocketing of the red ball in a top corner pocket from off its own spot so as to leave the cue ball in position for an easy winning hazard in either top corner pocket.