stroker

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noun

One who strokes.

UncommonFirst used 16ᵗʰ to 17ᵗʰ century.Scrabble 11

Meanings

stroker1

nounstroker (plural strokers)

plural strokers

  1. One who strokes.
  2. Something with which to stroke.
  3. slangA four-stroke engine or by extension the vehicle itself; especially a motorcycle, as opposed to a two-stroke motorcycle (smoker).
  4. derogatoryslangA masturbator.
  5. derogatoryslangA loser.
  6. derogatoryslangA criminal, a trickster.
  7. obsoleteA person who cures illnesses (especially scrofula, ) by stroking the sufferer.First known use 16ᵗʰ to 17ᵗʰ century.

    The bold Folly of Stroakers may seem a Mocking of Majesty, and the Intrenching on that Prerogative, which, conferred by a St. Edward the Confessor, and a Saint Lewis, on the Kings of England and France, to cure by Touch, must be reputed Sacred, such a Jewel as cannot be alienated from a Crown.

    1670, anonymous author, “The Cloud Opened: Or, The English Hero”, in The Harleian Miscellany, volume 4, published 1745, page 153
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    […] never did any person address themselves to him for cure in those forementioned accidents, but he cured ’em one and all as fast as they'd come near him; so that not Greatrix himself that wonder-working Stroker ever groped away the Gout or Kings Evil more infallibly than this dear Father,

    1691, John Dunton, chapter 6, in A Voyage Round the World, page 112

Stroker2

proper nounStroker (plural Strokers)

plural Strokers

Origin

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APA

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Chicago

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