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单词 stroker
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strokern.

/ˈstrəʊkə/
Etymology: < stroke v.1, stroke n.1 + -er suffix1.
1.
a. One who strokes; spec. one who cures diseases by stroking.
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the world > physical sensation > touch and feeling > touching > stroking > [noun] > one who
strokera1637
the world > health and disease > healing > healer > paramedic > [noun] > manipulator > masseur or masseuse
rubber1616
strokera1637
strokesman1712
masser1787
shampooer1829
masseur1876
anma1877
masseuse1879
massager1889
massagist1889
massor1899
massotherapist1932
Rolfer1971
massage therapist1977
a1637 B. Jonson Magnetick Lady iv. iv. 4 in Wks. (1640) III Kee. What you please, Dame Polish, My Ladies Stroaker.
1665 T. Allen Χειρεξοκη: Excellency of Royal 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 J. Glanvill Blow at Mod. Sadducism 85 The great discourse now at the Coffee-Houses, and every where, is about Mr. G[reatrak], the famous Irish Stroker.
1851 E. B. Browning Casa Guidi Windows i. xvii. 46 No man would be The stroker of his mane.
1886 Folk-lore Jrnl. 4 361 Erysipelas. This in Donegal is known as The Rose; it..can be cured by a Stroker.
1886 Folk-lore Jrnl. 4 361 The women's friends brought in a ‘stroker’, who rubbed the nurse with bog-moss [etc.].
b. stroker-in in Printing: see quot. 1888.
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society > communication > printing > printer > [noun] > layer of sheets in press
layer-on1849
pointer1882
stroker-in1888
1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 134 Stroker-in, the layer-on who strokes in the sheets one by one to be printed.
1902 Daily Chron. 18 Aug. 9/7 Strokers-in (Smart) wanted for printing machine.
2. An implement used for some operation likened to stroking (see quots.).
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society > occupation and work > equipment > tool > types of tools generally > [noun] > for performing specific processes
drawerc1400
blocker1407
roller1728
screena1764
scrieve iron1785
notcher1858
opener1874
truer1875
crimper1876
sheller1883
stroker1884
1884 W. S. B. McLaren Spinning Woollen & Worsted (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.
1888 C. T. Jacobi 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. [ < stroke n.1] One who make strokes in Polo.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > equestrian sports except racing > polo > [noun] > player
poloist1876
stroker1895
1895 Outing 26 389/1 The Iowa Clubs are now playing the regulation American game and they bring to it a formidable set of fearless riders and brilliant strokers.

Draft additions December 2006

Originally 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 occasionally: the driver of a stroker (as in quot. 19481).
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > driving or operating a vehicle > driver or operator of vehicle > [noun] > driver of motor vehicle > driver of other types of motor vehicle
vanner1893
hot rod1943
hot rodder1947
stroker1948
low rider1966
stocker1976
gas-guzzler1977
society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > internal-combustion engine > [noun] > other types
square motor1912
compression-ignition engine1926
square engine1930
stroker1948
rebore1967
1948 Hot Rod Mag. Apr. 11/2Stroker, dear,’ she purred sweetly, ‘Can you drive with one hand?’
1948 Hot Rod Mag. Nov. 13/2 Stroker, an engine with a crankshaft stroked above normal.
1965 J. Lawlor How to talk Car 103 Top performing dragsters are often powered by strokers.
1975 D. Minton & F. Melling Superbikes 37/1 The ear-shattering crackles and resonant overtones of so many high-powered strokers.
1987 Hot Rod Aug. 45/2 In a 3500-pound taxicab, Sonny's stroker could ‘dream wheel’ through the quarter's lights at 138 mph.
2000 Mountain 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.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online December 2019).
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