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.
Related words: (words related to TEN-STRIKE)
- 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;