单词 | stroking |
释义 | strokingn. 1. The action of stroke v.1, in various senses.In the 17th cent. often spoken of as a process of healing. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > touch and feeling > touching > stroking > [noun] stroking1587 the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > physiotherapy > [noun] > rubbing with hands fricace1541 frication1541 friction1581 stroking1587 stroke1631 chirapsy1828 the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > dairy farming > [noun] > milking milkingOE stroking1587 milching1648 vaccimulgence1796 society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or constructing with stone > [noun] > other processes raggling1500 rigalding1688 tailing1700 rusticating1749 rustication1766 knobbling1785 boasting1823 wind-pinning1833 stroking1842 garreting1845 hearting1858 knobbing1875 ripple-flaking1883 retouch1885 the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > [noun] > gathering stroking1880 take-up1880 whipping1882 shirring1908 1587 L. Mascall Bk. Cattell: Sheep (1627) 206 Yee shall draw the Ewe a little, which the Heard men doe call stroking. 1626 G. Sandys tr. Ovid Metamorphosis x. 198 A Stag..who..well pleas'd, would stand The gentle strokings of a stranger's hand. 1632 J. Hayward in tr. G. F. Biondi Eromena Transl. to Rdr. sig. (b) I expect not the least stroaking of applause. 1633 H. Wotton in L. P. Smith Life & Lett. Sir H. Wotton (1907) II. 343 The manner of his cure..is somewhat strange; he useth no bindings, but oils and strokings. 1666 H. Stubbe Miraculous Conformist Ep. Ded. 2 Upon his first stroaking the Patient should be worse, and cured by a second. 1713 J. Gay Rural Sports 14 When the big udder'd Cows with Patience stand, Waiting the Stroakings of the Damsel's Hand. 1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. ii. iii. 518 This operation produces a sort of fluted surface, and is called stroking. 1880 Mrs. L. S. Floyer Plain Hints Exam. Needlework 19 The stroking should be done above the gathering thread, as well as below. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 489 A more or less forcible stroking of the skin with a pointed instrument. 2. plural. The last milk drawn from a cow; ‘afterings’. Cf. strapping n.2, streaking n.1 (after streak v.1), stripping n.2 b. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > dairy farming > [noun] > milking > last drainings strokings1602 streakings1658 afterings1688 stripping1781 strapping1806 jibbings1824 hind milk1895 1602 Entert. Harefield in Lyly's Wks. (1902) I. 492 You shall haue..stroakings, in good faith, redd cowes milk. 1658 Compl. Cook 76 Take a Gallon of Stroakings and a Pint of Creame as it comes from the Cow. 1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random II. xl. 34 The cook entertained me with choice bits, the dairy-maid with stroakings. 1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm III. 913 The afterings or strokings are well known to be the richest part of the milk. CompoundsΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > metalworking equipment > [noun] > equipment for testing quality of metal needle1469 touchstone1530 parting glass1594 proof needle1683 stroking needle1683 touch needle1683 Lydian-stone1720 scorifier1758 sebilla1839 sonometer1849 quantometer1927 1683 J. Pettus tr. L. Ercker i. i. 3 in Fleta Minor i How..to make stroking or touching Needles, or Ingots of Silver for distinguishing the fine from the less fine Silver. stroking pin n. a pin used to stroke gathers. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > [noun] > gathering > pin for stroking pin1880 1880 Mrs. L. S. Floyer Plain Hints Exam. Needlework 46 1 stroking pin. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online June 2020). > as lemmasˈstroking ˈstroking adj. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > touch and feeling > touching > stroking > [adjective] stroking1619 chin-stroking1858 1619 B. Jonson Pleasure reconciled to Virtue in Masques (1640) 28 But with a minde as gentle as the stroaking winde runs ore the gentler flowers. 1620 F. Quarles Feast for Wormes G 3 A Yongling..(Scarce weaned from his dandling mothers tet, Where he was cockerd with a stroking hand). 1693 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Metamorphoses i, in Examen Poeticum 56 They stroke her Neck, the gentle Heyfar stands, And her Neck offers to their stroaking Hands. < n.1587 as lemmas |
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