stroking

English

Verb

stroking

  1. present participle of stroke

Noun

stroking (plural strokings)

  1. The act by which something is stroked.
    • Milton
      I doubt not with one gentle stroking to wipe away ten thousand tears.
  2. (textiles) The act of laying small gathers in cloth in regular order.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for stroking in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.