By-stroke
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: By-stroke is a noun meaning An incidental or slyly given stroke; a gratuitous addition or indirect action.
Meaning
An incidental or slyly given stroke; a gratuitous addition or indirect action.
More Meanings
- A secondary attack.
Example Sentences
We must be content to signalize a by-stroke of sympathetic delicacy.
These persons are selected, for a by-stroke of satire, as drunken and riotous paupers .
Financier as he was, he felt it was not right by a by-stroke or side-wind to alter what is a matter of high constitutional practice.
The text before us furnishes an example of the manner in which he is wont to convey this doctrine to the minds of his people, even where he is not immediately employed on it—by a by-stroke, as it were .
Word Forms
- by-strokes
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include stroke, sidestep, flip, sidle, tack, sidestepping.
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