Word Meanings - TEN-STRIKE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A knocking down of all ten pins at one delivery of the ball. 2. Any quick, decisive stroke or act.

Related words: (words related to TEN-STRIKE)

• STROKER
  One who strokes; also, one who pretends to cure by stroking. Cures worked by Greatrix the stroker. Bp. Warburton.
• KNOCKSTONE
  A block upon which ore is broken up.
• DECISIVE
  1. Having the power or quality of deciding a question or controversy; putting an end to contest or controversy; final; conclusive. "A decisive, irrevocable doom." Bates. "Decisive campaign." Macaulay. "Decisive proof." Hallam. 2. Marked
• QUICKBEAM
  See TREE
• QUICKSTEP
  A lively, spirited march; also, a lively style of dancing.
• QUICKNESS
  1. The condition or quality of being quick or living; life. Touch it with thy celestial quickness. Herbert. 2. Activity; briskness; especially, rapidity of motion; speed; celerity; as, quickness of wit. This deed . . . must send thee hence With
• KNOCKING
  A beating; a rap; a series of raps. The . . . repeated knockings of the head upon the ground by the Chinese worshiper. H. Spencer.
• QUICKSILVER
  The metal mercury; -- so called from its resemblance to liquid silver. Quicksilver horizon, a mercurial artificial horizon. See under Horizon. -- Quicksilver water, a solution of mercury nitrate used in artificial silvering; quick water.
• KNOCK-KNEE
  A condition in which the knees are bent in so as to touch each other in walking; inknee.
• QUICKHATCH
  The wolverine.
• QUICKEN TREE
  The European rowan tree; -- called also quickbeam, and quickenbeam. See Rowan tree. (more info) aspen or some tree with quivering leaves; cf. G. quickenbaum,
• QUICKWORK
  All the submerged section of a vessel's planking. The planking between the spirketing and the clamps. The short planks between the portholes.
• QUICK-WITTED
  Having ready wit Shak.
• QUICKENS
  Quitch grass.
• STROKESMAN
  The man who rows the aftermost oar, and whose stroke is to be followed by the rest. Totten.
• QUICK-SCENTED
  Acute of smell.
• QUICKSILVERING
  The mercury and foil on the back of a looking-glass.
• KNOCK-OUT DROPS
  Drops of some drug put in one's drink to stupefy him for purpose of robbery, etc.
• KNOCK-OFF
  That knocks off; of or pertaining to knocking off.
• KNOCK-KNEED
  Having the legs bent inward so that the knees touch in walking.
• ENQUICKEN
  To quicken; to make alive. Dr. H. More.
• REDELIVERY
  1. Act of delivering back. 2. A second or new delivery or liberation.
• 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.
• INDECISIVENESS
  The state of being indecisive; unsettled state.
• INDECISIVE
  1. Not decisive; not bringing to a final or ultimate issue; as, an indecisive battle, argument, answer. The campaign had everywhere been indecisive. Macaulay. 2. Undetermined; prone to indecision; irresolute; unsettled; wavering; vacillating;