By Stroke - Law Dictionary Search Results
Affray
[fr. effrayer, Fr. to affright], a skirmish or fighting between two or more persons; there must be a stroke given or offered, or a weapon drawn, otherwise it is not an affray. It is a public offence,
Civil Law
letter D.P. or, and p, which latter is supposed to be a corruption of the D with a stroke through the middle, or perhaps a corruption of the Greek. The most ancient method of quotation is by
jackhammer
a hammer having a strong steel cutting blade driven by compressed air in multiple rapid strokes and used for cutting through pavement concrete or other hard substances
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Luck
luck Luck is often used by itself to mean good luck as luck is better than skill a stroke of luck
Clock
a weight or a spring and it is often so constructed as to tell the hour by the stroke of a hammer on a bell In electrical or electronic clocks the time may be indicated as on
Guillotine
A machine for beheading a person by one stroke of a heavy ax or blade which slides in vertical guides is raised by a cord and let
Golf
a series of small holes in the ground and brings it into the last hole with the fewest strokes is the winner
Foozle
To bungle to manage awkwardly to treat or play unskillfully as to foozle a stroke in golf
Dint
A blow a stroke
Dingdong theory
a phonetic expression jocosely so called from the analogy of the sound of a bell induced by the stroke of the clapper
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