A side or incidental blow; an accidental blow. With their by-blows they did split the very stones in pieces. Bunyan.
An illegitimate child; a bastard. The Aga speedily . . . brought her [his disgraced slave] to court, together with her pretty by-blow, the present Padre Ottomano. Evelyn.
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