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To stun; to stupefy. No puissant stroke his senses once astound. Fairfax.

re explosion in the cylinder of a gas or oil engine during the exhaust or the compression stroke, tending to drive the piston in a direction reverse to that in which it should travel; also, an explosion in the exhaust passages of such ah engine.

A blow; a stroke. [Scot.] H. Miller.

Reaping peas, beans, wheat, etc., with a chopping stroke. [Eng.]

To make a succession of strokes on a drum; as, the drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters.

A sudden stroke or injury produced by some destructive cause. [Obs.] Shak.

A forcible stroke with the hand, fist, or some instrument, as a rod, a club, an ax, or a sword. Well struck ! there was blow for blow. Shak.

e shameless and unblushing, the young offender is ashamed to blush. Buckminster. He would stroke The head of modest and ingenuous worth, That blushed at its own praise. Cowper.

from any source, or that which affects like a blow, as the violence of winds or waves; a stroke; an adverse action; an affliction; a trial; adversity. Those planks of tough and hardy oak that used for yeas to brave the buffets of the Bay of Biscay. Burke. Fortune's buffets and rewards. Shak.

A secret or side stroke, as of raillery or sarcasm. Milton.

spring, the fountain of Hippocrene, on Mount Helicon; - - fabled to have been formed by a stroke from the foot of the winged horse Pegasus.

s to reputation; slanderous; as, calumnious reports. Virtue itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes. Shak.

One of the fine lines of a letter, esp. one of the fine cross strokes at the top and bottom of letters. [Spelt also seriph.] Savage.

To make a quick strike, or repeated strokes, with an ax or other sharp instrument.

Act of cutting by strokes. Chopping block, a solid block of wood on which butchers and others chop meat, etc. -- Chopping knife, a knife for chopping or mincing meat, vegetables, etc.; -- usually with a handle at the back of the blade instead of at the end.

ut. Clamored their piteous prayer incessantly. Longfellow. To clamor bells, to repeat the strokes quickly so as to produce a loud clang. Bp. Warbur

A single, sudden act or motion; a stroke; a blow. What, fifty of my followers at a clap! Shak.

ject clears another, as the distance between the piston and cylinder head at the end of a stroke in a steam engine, or the least distance between the point of a cogwell tooth and the bottom of a space between teeth of a wheel with which it engages. Clearance space (Steam engine), the space inclosed in one end of the cy…

A blow or stroke with the hand; as, he hit him a clip. [Colloq. U. S.]

moved by a weight or a spring, and it is often so constructed as to tell the hour by the stroke of a hammer on a bell. It is not adapted, like the watch, to be carried on the person.