English

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Pronunciation

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  • enPR: strōkʹ-ĭnɡ, IPA(key): /ˈstɹəʊ̯k.ɪŋ/
    • (US) /ˈstɹoʊ̯k.ɪŋ/
    • (UK) /ˈstɹəʊ̯k.ɪŋ/
  • Hyphenation: strok‧ing
  • Rhymes: -əʊkɪŋ

Verb

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stroking

  1. present participle and gerund of stroke

Noun

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stroking (plural strokings)

  1. The act of making strokes or giving a stroke.
  2. (textiles) The act of laying small gathers in cloth in regular order.

Derived terms

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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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