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Definition of Strokers
1. stroker [n] - See also: stroker
Lexicographical Neighbors of Strokers
Literary usage of Strokers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Traces of the Elder Faiths of Ireland: A Folklore Sketch; a Handbook of by William Gregory Wood-Martin (1902)
"Thus Dr. Thomas Allen dissuades persons from applying themselves to seventh sons
of these strokers ; but these seem to have found much favour nevertheless. ..."
2. St. James's Magazine by S. C. Hall (1864)
"Thus Dr. Thomas Allen * dissuades persons from applying themselves to seventh
sons of those strokers ; but these seem to have found much favour nevertheless ..."
3. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1898)
"... heart-strokers; whereas we, Master Cino, are, in Scripture-language, doers of
the word, rounding our phrases with iron and putting in full-stops with ..."
4. The New York Times Current History (1917)
"The counter-strokers by the enemy were delivered at first with great vigor, but
later on they decreased in strength, and all were driven off with heavy loss ..."
5. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1854)
"... natural gift,' like that of i he'bone-setters,'and ' scrofula-strokers,' and '
cancer-curers,' who carry on a sort of guerilla war with human maladies. ..."
6. Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1899)
"... kinds of automatic strokers, by certain kinds of furnaces and methods of
firing, all of which Mr. Hale does not go into. I agree with him entirely that ..."
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