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stroker|ˈstrəʊkə(r)|
[f. stroke v.1 and n.1 + -er1.]
1. One who strokes; spec. one who cures diseases by stroking.
1632B. Jonson Magn. Lady iv. i, Kee. What you please, Dame Polish, My Ladies Stroaker. 1665T. A. Excell. Roy. Hand 1 Divers persons.. boasting themselves the seventh Sons, Stroakers, and what not,..promising by their manual Touch, the perfect Cure of those Swellings, commonly called by the name of the Kings Evil. 1666(title) Rub for Rub; or, an Answer to a Physicians pamphlet, styled the Stroker Stroked. 1668[Glanvill] Blow at modern Sadducism 85 The great discourse now at the Coffee-Houses, and every where, is about Mr. G[reatrak], the famous Irish Stroker. 1851Mrs. Browning Casa Guidi Wind. i. 666 No man would be The stroker of his mane. 1886Folk-Lore Jrnl. IV. 361 Erysipelas. This in Donegal is known as The Rose; it..can be cured by a Stroker. Ibid., The women's friends brought in a ‘stroker’, who rubbed the nurse with bog-moss [etc.].
b. stroker-in in Printing: see quot. 1888.
1888Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 134 Stroker-in, the layer-on who strokes in the sheets one by one to be printed. 1902Daily Chron. 18 Aug. 9/7 Strokers-in (Smart) wanted for printing machine.
2. An implement used for some operation likened to stroking (see quots.).
1884McLaren Spinning (ed. 2) 161 As it revolves it is met by the stroker.., a wheel with sharp teeth projecting from it... This wheel revolves from left to right, and is used to stroke the wool which projects from the little circle, so as to turn the ends forwards. 1888Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 134 Stroker, a small implement, generally made of wood and tipped with metal, for ‘stroking in’, or laying on sheets in a printing machine.
3. [f. stroke n.1] One who make strokes in Polo.
1895Outing XXVI. 389/1 The Iowa Clubs are now playing the regulation American game and they bring to it a formidable set of fearless riders and brilliant strokers.
▸ orig. U.S. A motor-vehicle engine which has been adapted by grinding the throws of the crankshaft off centre in order to increase piston displacement or ‘stroke’, thus producing greater power or speed; (also) a motor vehicle with such an engine. Also occas.: the driver of a stroker (as in quot. 1948).
1948Hot Rod Mag. Apr. 11/2 ‘Stroker, dear,’ she purred sweetly, ‘Can you drive with one hand?’ 1948Hot Rod Mag. Nov. 13/2 Stroker, an engine with a crankshaft stroked above normal. 1965J. Lawlor How to talk Car 103 Top performing dragsters are often powered by strokers. 1975D. Minton & F. Melling Superbikes 37/1 The ear-shattering crackles and resonant overtones of so many high-powered strokers. 1987Hot Rod Aug. 45/2 In a 3500-pound taxicab, Sonny's stroker could ‘dream wheel’ through the quarter's lights at 138 mph. 2000Mountain Democrat (Placerville, Calif.) 15 June b2/1 Long strokers are known for torque production and lower emissions, but this engine seems to do everything well. |