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Word Meanings - TEN-STRIKE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A knocking down of all ten pins at one delivery of the ball. 2. Any quick, decisive stroke or act.

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  • STROKER
    One who strokes; also, one who pretends to cure by stroking. Cures worked by Greatrix the stroker. Bp. Warburton.
  • KNOCKSTONE
    A block upon which ore is broken up.
  • DECISIVE
    1. Having the power or quality of deciding a question or controversy; putting an end to contest or controversy; final; conclusive. "A decisive, irrevocable doom." Bates. "Decisive campaign." Macaulay. "Decisive proof." Hallam. 2. Marked
  • QUICKBEAM
    See TREE
  • QUICKSTEP
    A lively, spirited march; also, a lively style of dancing.
  • QUICKNESS
    1. The condition or quality of being quick or living; life. Touch it with thy celestial quickness. Herbert. 2. Activity; briskness; especially, rapidity of motion; speed; celerity; as, quickness of wit. This deed . . . must send thee hence With
  • KNOCKING
    A beating; a rap; a series of raps. The . . . repeated knockings of the head upon the ground by the Chinese worshiper. H. Spencer.
  • KNOCK-KNEE
    A condition in which the knees are bent in so as to touch each other in walking; inknee.
  • QUICKSILVER
    The metal mercury; -- so called from its resemblance to liquid silver. Quicksilver horizon, a mercurial artificial horizon. See under Horizon. -- Quicksilver water, a solution of mercury nitrate used in artificial silvering; quick water.
  • QUICKHATCH
    The wolverine.
  • QUICKEN TREE
    The European rowan tree; -- called also quickbeam, and quickenbeam. See Rowan tree. (more info) aspen or some tree with quivering leaves; cf. G. quickenbaum,
  • QUICKWORK
    All the submerged section of a vessel's planking. The planking between the spirketing and the clamps. The short planks between the portholes.
  • QUICK-WITTED
    Having ready wit Shak.
  • QUICKENS
    Quitch grass.
  • STROKESMAN
    The man who rows the aftermost oar, and whose stroke is to be followed by the rest. Totten.
  • QUICK-SCENTED
    Acute of smell.
  • QUICKSILVERING
    The mercury and foil on the back of a looking-glass.
  • KNOCK-OUT DROPS
    Drops of some drug put in one's drink to stupefy him for purpose of robbery, etc.
  • KNOCK-OFF
    That knocks off; of or pertaining to knocking off.
  • KNOCK-KNEED
    Having the legs bent inward so that the knees touch in walking.
  • ENQUICKEN
    To quicken; to make alive. Dr. H. More.
  • REDELIVERY
    1. Act of delivering back. 2. A second or new delivery or liberation.
  • CRAWL STROKE
    A racing stroke, in which the swimmer, lying flat on the water with face submerged, takes alternate overhand arm strokes while moving his legs up and down alternately from the knee.
  • BY-STROKE
    An accidental or a slyly given stroke.
  • SPLIT SHOT; SPLIT STROKE
    In croquet, etc., a shot or stroke in which one drives in different directions one's own and the opponent's ball placed in contact.
  • INDECISIVENESS
    The state of being indecisive; unsettled state.
  • INDECISIVE
    1. Not decisive; not bringing to a final or ultimate issue; as, an indecisive battle, argument, answer. The campaign had everywhere been indecisive. Macaulay. 2. Undetermined; prone to indecision; irresolute; unsettled; wavering; vacillating;

 

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