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stroke — To strike. [Obs.] Ye mote with the plat sword again Stroken him in the wound, and it will close. Chaucer. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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