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1965 poem by Australian poet Vincent Buckley
"Stroke" (1965) is a poem by Australian poet Vincent Buckley. It was originally published in the literary magazine Quadrant vol. 9 no. 1 January-February
Stroke_(poem)
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Squier The Strokes, a rock band "Stroke", a 2019 song by Banks from III "Strokin'", a 1986 song by Clarence Carter "Stroke" (poem), a 1965 poem by Vincent
Stroke_(disambiguation)
Condition caused by excessive exposure to high temperatures
Heat stroke or heatstroke, also known as sun-stroke, is a severe heat illness that results in a body temperature greater than 40.0 °C (104.0 °F), along
Heat_stroke
Painting by Richard Dadd
Dadd subsequently wrote a long poem by the name of Elimination of a Picture & its Subject—called The Fellers' Master Stroke in which each of the characters
The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke
The_Fairy_Feller's_Master-Stroke
Old English poem composed 658 to 680
poem is Cædmon's only surviving composition. The poem has a claim to being the oldest surviving English poem: if Bede's account is correct, the poem was
Cædmon's_Hymn
1790 poem by Robert Burns
"Tam o' Shanter" is a narrative poem written by the Scottish poet Robert Burns in 1790, while living in Dumfries. First published in the second volume
Tam_o'_Shanter_(poem)
Traugott Rohner c-11m March 10, 1955 Instruments of the Band and Orchestra Stroke and Your Heart c-16m 1982 Cardiology: You & Your Heart Student Government
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German literary scholar and writer (born 1949)
Schlagfluß. Gedichte, Oldenburg, 2005. ISBN 3-89621-204-4. Picnic by the Stroke. Poems. "Prof. Dr. em. Ulrich Horstmann: Curriculum Vitae". Justus-Liebig-Universität
Ulrich_Horstmann
American poet (1830–1886)
prolific writer, only 10 of her nearly 1,800 poems were published during her lifetime. Today her poems are widely regarded as groundbreaking with their
Emily_Dickinson
2025 poetry collection by Richard Siken
book of poems, it was scheduled for publication in August 2025 by Copper Canyon Press. It consists of 77 poems written following Siken's stroke and subsequent
I_Do_Know_Some_Things
Runic alphabet letter
(Vimose, Kovel). The name is attested for the same rune in all three Rune Poems. It appears as Old Norse and Old Icelandic Sól and as Old English Sigel
Sowilō_(rune)
Ancient Egyptian religious festivities
and so many struggles sustained by her, so many wandering races, so many strokes of wisdom and courage remained buried in silence and oblivion. But, through
Mysteries_of_Osiris
Poem by William Shakespeare
(1594) is a narrative poem by William Shakespeare about the legendary Roman noblewoman Lucretia. In his previous narrative poem, Venus and Adonis (1593)
The_Rape_of_Lucrece
1799 poem by William Wordsworth
"Lucy Gray" is a poem written by William Wordsworth in 1799 and published in the second edition of Lyrical Ballads (1800). It describes the death of a
Lucy_Gray
American poet, painter, and filmmaker (born 1967)
In 2019, Siken had a stroke. His first poem published afterward, "Real Estate", appeared in the Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day in December 2020
Richard_Siken
1974 studio album by Queen
the painting and in Dadd's companion poem, Elimination of a Picture & its Subject—called The Feller's Master Stroke. Characters include Queen Mab, Waggoner
Queen_II
National anthem of Hungary
Ferenc Erkel in 1844, although other lesser known musical versions exist. The poem bore the subtitle "A magyar nép zivataros századaiból" (From Stormy Centuries
Himnusz
Poem by William Shakespeare
is a narrative poem by William Shakespeare published in 1593. It is considered likely to be Shakespeare's first publication. The poem tells the story
Venus and Adonis (Shakespeare poem)
Venus_and_Adonis_(Shakespeare_poem)
Book by Tomas Tranströmer
months before he suffered a stroke which damaged his ability to speak, Tranströmer made a Swedish audio recording of the poem which runs for 24 minutes
Baltics_(poem)
Group of islands in the South Atlantic
singing songs, dancing, shouting, playing instruments and firing guns. At the stroke of midnight, a bell would announce the new year. On New Year's Day, the
Tristan_da_Cunha
Book by William Carlos Williams
Music was written after Williams recovered from a stroke in 1952. Kenneth Rexroth called the title poem "an explicit statement of the irreducible humaneness
The Desert Music and Other Poems
The_Desert_Music_and_Other_Poems
Medical examination of a corpse
diagnoses) "Autopsies revealed 171 missed diagnoses, including 21 cancers, 12 strokes, 11 myocardial infarctions, 10 pulmonary emboli, and 9 endocarditis, among
Autopsy
American poet, essayist and journalist (1819–1892)
Dooryard Bloom'd", and gave a series of lectures on Lincoln. After suffering a stroke towards the end of his life, Whitman moved to Camden, New Jersey, where
Walt_Whitman
the next election to spend more time with his wife, who has suffered a stroke. 4 February – Dafydd Wigley, a former leader of Plaid Cymru, warns that
2024 in United Kingdom politics and government
2024_in_United_Kingdom_politics_and_government
person: there are two characters named Simon Pure in the original play A Bold Stroke for a Wife, hence the different definitions). Jan Evangelista Purkyně, Czech
List_of_eponyms_(L–Z)
1824 symphony by Ludwig van Beethoven
of D major. The text was adapted from the "An die Freude (Ode to Joy)", a poem written by Friedrich Schiller in 1785 and revised in 1803, with additional
Symphony_No._9_(Beethoven)
Style of penmanship
letters in a word are connected, sometimes making a word one single complex stroke. Cursive is a style of penmanship in which the symbols of the language are
Cursive
Robert Burns poem set to traditional melody
English-speaking world it is traditionally sung to bid farewell to the old year at the stroke of midnight on Hogmanay, or New Year's Eve. It is also often heard at funerals
Auld_Lang_Syne
Poem by Lord Byron
Minerva is a poem by Lord Byron first published in 1812 privately and printed by Thomas Davison in London. It is a scathing satirical poem attacking Thomas
The_Curse_of_Minerva
Gone Forever – Guster 1999 Mindfields – Toto 1999 Nasty Little Thoughts – Stroke 9 1999 Northern Star – Melanie C 1999 Ricky Martin – Ricky Martin 1999 Street
Ted_Jensen_discography
Longest poem of F. L. Lucas
Ariadne (1932) is a short epic or long narrative poem of 3,300 lines, by the British poet F. L. Lucas. It tells the story of Theseus and Ariadne, with
Ariadne_(poem)
1819 poem by John Keats
"Ode to a Nightingale" is a poem by John Keats, one of his 1819 odes. It was written either in the garden of the Spaniards Inn, Hampstead, London, or,
Ode_to_a_Nightingale
Symphonic poem by Franz Liszt
Mazeppa is a symphonic poem (German: Symphonische Dichtung) composed by Franz Liszt between the years 1851 to 1854 for orchestra. Mazeppa, S. 100, is the
Mazeppa_(symphonic_poem)
British artist (1615–1690)
and William III and Mary II. Both Andrew Marvell and Edmund Waller wrote poems addressed to him. His early life is undocumented, but he is said to have
Richard_Gibson_(painter)
Soviet and Russian poet
reclusive in nature. He suffered a stroke several years before his death. He is believed to have endured another stroke in early 2010. On 1 June 2010, Voznesensky
Andrei_Voznesensky
Association football club in Birmingham, England
forced retirement from the club in July 1964, following a stress-induced stroke, signalled a period of deep turmoil and malaise. The most successful club
Aston_Villa_F.C.
English poet and novelist (1807–1874)
had a wife and four children: Henry, George, Emma and Ellen. He died of a stroke at his home at 24 New Street, Kensington, on 24 October 1874 and was buried
Thomas_Miller_(poet)
Nigerian politician (1920–1983)
April 1983, several months before the election. After suffering from a stroke as a result of a bout of cerebral malaria, Aminu Kano died on 17 April 1983
Aminu_Kano
Mongolian writer and poet (1906–1937)
a stroke on a street in Ulaanbaatar on 13 July 1937, aged 30. An investigation into his arrest in 1989 declared him innocent. Natsagdorj wrote poems, short
Dashdorjiin_Natsagdorj
American poet and writer (1926–1997)
poem's language and descriptions of heterosexual and homosexual sex at a time when sodomy laws criminalized male homosexual in every state. The poem reflected
Allen_Ginsberg
Japanese writing Components Kanji Stroke order Radicals Jōyō kanji list Kyōiku kanji Tōyō kanji Jinmeiyō kanji Hyōgai kanji on'yomi go-on kan-on tō-on
List_of_jōyō_kanji
Culture of Dayak people in Southeast Asia
animals which are under Sempulang Gana and empowered by the deities to send a stroke of luck (nganjong laba) to human farmers in the world of men: Tuchok or
Iban_culture
Poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins, written 1879
"Binsey Poplars" is a poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889), written in 1879. The poem was inspired by the felling of a row of poplar trees near the
Binsey_Poplars
(1991) "Itch" short story Fiction International (Spring 1988) Uncollected "Stroke" short story The Malahat Review (Spring 1988) The Assignation (1988) "Face"
Joyce Carol Oates short fiction bibliography
Joyce_Carol_Oates_short_fiction_bibliography
from Argentina, and Bailey gets jealous. They go to a bar, and he reads a poem that Bailey thinks was written for Sarah. Bailey punches him and realizes
List of Party of Five episodes
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Poem by Alphonse de Lamartine
(English: The Lake) is a poem by French poet Alphonse de Lamartine. The poem was published in 1820.[citation needed] The poem consists of sixteen quatrains
Le_Lac_(poem)
People from Newark, New Jersey, United States
Newark, New Jersey Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997), poet, known for the 1956 poem "Howl" Dan Gutman (born 1955), writer, primarily of children's fiction Andrew
List of people from Newark, New Jersey
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Trial of Menahem Mendel Beilis for a ritual murder
with judicial officials, expressed hope in a skilled trial judge and a stroke of luck: Anyway, the case has attracted significant media attention and
Beilis_affair
incident of a hickey causing a stroke. A hickey had caused a 44-year-old New Zealand woman to have a non-fatal stroke... Researchers at the time called
List of unusual deaths in the 21st century
List_of_unusual_deaths_in_the_21st_century
List of people in Australian riverboating
1949) worked on the Echuca wharf. His friend, bush poet Will Lawson, wrote a poem on his death. Robert M. "Bob" Anderson (c. 1840 – 13 July 1889) of Mannum
Murray–Darling steamboat people
Murray–Darling_steamboat_people
English phrase
Thirteenth stroke of the clock or "thirteen strikes of the clock" is a phrase, saying, and proverb to indicate that the previous events or "strokes to the
Thirteenth stroke of the clock
Thirteenth_stroke_of_the_clock
loses her nerve, which leads to an angry argument with Nina, followed by a stroke. Madeleine's children cannot understand why Nina is always hanging around
List of feature films with lesbian characters
List_of_feature_films_with_lesbian_characters
1937 novella by John Steinbeck
in his novel The Grapes of Wrath. The title is taken from Robert Burns' poem "To a Mouse": "The best laid schemes o' mice an' men / Gang aft agley" ("The
Of_Mice_and_Men
Music by Robert Schumann based on Lord Byron's poetry
Manfred: Dramatic Poem with Music in Three Parts (Opus 115) (German: Manfred. Dramatisches Gedicht in drei Abtheilungen) is a work of incidental music
Manfred_(Schumann)
Attempted coup d'état in Japan on November 25, 1970, by writer Yukio Mishima
the poet Emmanuel Rothen recited a poem dedicated to Mishima, The Ritual of Love and Death (Patriotism). The poem was also introduced and recited by Mishima's
Mishima_Incident
Nicholas Bosanquet, 84, British health economist and political activist, stroke. Prashant Bose, 82, Indian Maoist militant. Nanni Cagnone, 86, Italian poet
Deaths_in_April_2026
"Plenty of Good Lovin'" Sparkle Robert Kelly‡ Robert Kelly± 1998 Sparkle "The Poem" R. Kelly Robert Kelly‡ Robert Kelly± 2015 The Buffet "Poetic Sex" R. Kelly
List of songs written and produced by R. Kelly
List_of_songs_written_and_produced_by_R._Kelly
peculiar event to Robert W. Service, inspired Mr. Service to write the fanciful poem The Cremation of Sam McGee. Red Line [Car #5] was named for the stage and
List of White Pass and Yukon Route locomotives and cars
List_of_White_Pass_and_Yukon_Route_locomotives_and_cars
14th-century Middle English chivalric romance
which he is a guest. The poem survives in one manuscript, Cotton Nero A.x., which also includes three religious narrative poems: Pearl, Cleanness, and Patience
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Sir_Gawain_and_the_Green_Knight
1825 poem and song by Walter Scott
Bonnie Dundee is the title of a poem and a song written by Walter Scott in 1825 in honour of John Graham, 7th Laird of Claverhouse, who was created 1st
Bonnie_Dundee
Works by English writer (1893–1957)
after her graduation, Sayers published her first book, a collection of poems entitled Op. I, which she followed two years later with a second, a slim
List of works by Dorothy L. Sayers
List_of_works_by_Dorothy_L._Sayers
must cause a man's death every time it is bared, nor ever fails in its stroke; moreover, the wound heals not if one be scratched with it. — Arthur Gilchrist
Weapons_of_Norse_mythology
Japanese syllabary
tsu ツ, so ソ, and n ン look very similar in print except for the slant and stroke shape. These differences in slant and shape are more prominent when written
Katakana
American poet (1819–1881)
Bell" (1862); and his most famous poem, "The Hand That Rocks The Cradle Is The Hand That Rules The World" (1865), a poem praising motherhood. He contributed
William_Ross_Wallace
Navigator CD, DI, LP 468 2014 Stanley Boucher Watcher in Black and Other Poems Book 469 2015 Really Red Too Political DI 470 2014 The World/Inferno Friendship
Alternative Tentacles discography
Alternative_Tentacles_discography
1890 painting by Mikhail Vrubel
look like stained glasses or panels. That effect was achieved with plain strokes made with a painting knife. In 1889, Vrubel moved to Moscow where he would
The_Demon_Seated
Three-volume literary work published (1854–1856)
Drusus, and Sulla; Book V, the Civil Wars and Julius Caesar. The broad strokes of Mommsen's long, sometimes intense narrative of the Roman Republic were
The_History_of_Rome_(Mommsen)
Expansive Walt Whitman poetry collection
The first edition was a slim tract of twelve poems, and the last was a compilation of over 400 poems. The book represents a celebration of Whitman's
Leaves_of_Grass
Russian poet, composer, singer (c. 1749–1799)
most ancient cities within Russia. Zubova was the creator of heartfelt poems and a composer of salon songs during the late 18th and was considered by
Maria_Zubova
2024 awards ceremony for LGBTQ+ literature
Dance with Me Bold Strokes Books Winner Marianne Ratcliffe A Lady to Treasure Bellows Press Finalist Kris Bryant Catch Bold Strokes Books Lisa Peers Love
36th_Lambda_Literary_Awards
City bombing, McVeigh chose "Invictus" (Latin for "unconquered"), an 1875 poem by the British poet William Ernest Henley, as his final statement prior to
List of last words (21st century)
List_of_last_words_(21st_century)
Letter of Old English and some Scandinavian languages
with stroke (or barred thorn) is an early manuscript abbreviation inherited from Old English. It is the letter ⟨þ⟩, with a bold horizontal stroke through
Thorn_(letter)
British socialite, fashion model, author, and television personality (1969–2018)
Court stated that her cause of death was a "cerebrovascular accident" (stroke). Her family said her cause of death was a heart attack. On 14 July 2018
Annabelle_Neilson
Swedish–French police television series
Kahina studies Carnot's tattoo, she is told that Rutger has died: possibly a stroke or heart failure. Anders Harnesk takes over the murder investigations. Kahina
Midnattssol
Female ninja
characters that resemble the three strokes in the Japanese kanji character for "woman" (女, onna) in the following stroke order: "く" is a hiragana character
Kunoichi
Japanese syllabary
deprecated hiragana are now known as hentaigana (変体仮名). The pangram poem Iroha-uta ("ABC song/poem"), which dates to the 10th century, uses every hiragana once
Hiragana
Conference facility in Eliot, Maine, United States
their garden was doing well at home. In December 1948 Gregory suffered a stroke a couple months after returning from a funeral for a friend and between
Green_Acre_Baháʼí_School
Canadian swimmer (born 1961)
and the world record distance of 80.2 kilometers swum using the butterfly stroke. Many people consider Keith as the face of marathon swimming. Keith has
Vicki_Keith
19th-century cultural movement
small-format work, generally in gouache, with firm but somewhat naive strokes, which gives his production a somewhat primitive air. After the 1889 Café
Symbolist_painting
British Poet Laureate (1809–1892)
collection of poems, Poems, Chiefly Lyrical, in 1830. "Claribel" and "Mariana", which remain some of Tennyson's most celebrated poems, were included
Alfred,_Lord_Tennyson
Irish schoolgirl (1968–1984)
their lives in Granard; Diarmuid died in August 1987 aged 54, following a stroke, while Patricia died in June 2015 aged 81. On the afternoon of Tuesday 31
Death_of_Ann_Lovett
In 1601, Iwamata Kogan tests his sword by beheading six criminals in one stroke. Back in 1622, while Gennosuke Fujiki nurses his damaged fingers, Irako
List_of_Shigurui_episodes
English actress (born 1986)
broaden neurorehabilitation access for young people after a brain injury or stroke. On 26 September 2019, she co-hosted a YouTube live stream with Irish YouTuber
Emilia_Clarke
America the Beautiful during the flag raising, but Katharine Lee Bates' poem was written 19 years later in 1895. Yuli mentions moving to South Dakota
List of Little House on the Prairie episodes
List_of_Little_House_on_the_Prairie_episodes
Chinese-based Vietnamese writing system
there is also a Nôm translation. Nguyễn Du, The Tale of Kieu (1820) The poem is full of obscure archaic words and Chinese borrowings, so that modern Vietnamese
Chữ_Nôm
Singaporean writer
for Wives, Lovers and Other Women. He is also the author of Different Strokes, a novel published in 1993 on two AIDS victims and a reporter who interviews
David_Leo
to properly appreciate a woman like Marian, and only a good woman and a poem are to live and die for, thus making it clear he is the man with whom Marian
Alfred Hitchcock Presents season 2
Alfred_Hitchcock_Presents_season_2
Decorative detail in typography
typography, a serif (/ˈsɛrɪf/) is a small line or stroke regularly attached to the end of a larger stroke in a letter or symbol within a particular font
Serif
Poem written by Adam Lindsay Gordon
"The Swimmer" is a poem by the Australian poet Adam Lindsay Gordon. The poem is from his last volume of poems Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes published
The_Swimmer_(poem)
Australian poet
From Sweden: Translations and Poems (1979) A Flag for the Wind (poems, Longman Cheshire, 1982) New and Selected Poems (poems, Longman Cheshire, 1988) "Martin
Philip_Martin_(poet)
Season of television series
enroll. During class, Andrew asks Marshall to read a poem and Ricky is shocked to hear his poem – copied from the bathroom wall. Defeated, Ricky swipes
Touched_by_an_Angel_season_6
Czech writer and illustrator (1902–1973)
number of German exiles, including Thomas Mann. From 1917 onwards, he wrote poems, which he initially published in magazines under various pseudonyms, and
Adolf_Hoffmeister
Poem by Oscar Wilde
The Sphinx is a 174-line poem by Oscar Wilde, written from the point of view of a young man who questions the Sphinx in lurid detail on the history of
The_Sphinx_(poem)
actually does it himself, it turned out he was a genius, which was obviously a stroke a luck. Meanwhile, Wyatt meets a new barista from Grind Me at the dating
List_of_6teen_episodes
cardiomyopathy 46 Character killed off with a stroke.[citation needed] Luke Perry Fred Andrews Riverdale 42 2019-03-04 Stroke 3 Character killed off with an off-screen
List of television performers who died during production
List_of_television_performers_who_died_during_production
American poet (1887–1972)
as a lesson in strength vindicated through trials and temptations; her poems often deal with the themes of strength and adversity. She thought "it was
Marianne_Moore
dinner with her friend, a woman named Collins. They enjoy their meal until a poem and cake is sent to Savannah's table from a secret admirer. Savannah finds
List of Chrisley Knows Best episodes
List_of_Chrisley_Knows_Best_episodes
Ancient Chinese proverb
(2003), to describe the difference in the processing of misfortune and strokes of fate in 'lucky devils' and 'unlucky fellows'. Coral Chen wrote and illustrated
The_old_man_lost_his_horse
the Pre-Socratic philosopher from Sicily, who, in one of his surviving poems, declared himself to have become a "divine being... no longer mortal", tried
List of unusual deaths in antiquity
List_of_unusual_deaths_in_antiquity
Spanish academic
Santiago, Pérez Gómez 2020, chapter Ultima lección in 1983 d’Ors suffered a stroke, the first mark of declining health, Pérez Gómez 2020, chapter Un infarto
Álvaro_d'Ors_Pérez-Peix
STROKE POEM
STROKE POEM
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from Middle English strong, strang ‘strong’, generally a nickname for a strong man but perhaps sometimes applied ironically to a weakling.French : translation of Trahand, a metonymic occupational name for a silkworker who drew out the thread from the cocoons (see Trahan).Translation of Ashkenazic Jewish Stark.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from an agent derivative of Middle English strike(n) ‘to stroke, smooth’, applied as an occupational name for someone whose job was to fill level measures of grain by passing a flat stick over the brim of the measure, thus removing any heaped excess.
Surname or Lastname
English (Cornwall)
English (Cornwall) : perhaps, as Reaney suggests, a variant of Strutt.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name for someone who lived on or by a strip of land, Old English strīp.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from any of the numerous places throughout England named from Middle English stoke. The exact sense in individual cases is not clear; it seems to have meant originally merely ‘place’, and to have been used mainly for an outlying hamlet or dependent settlement.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Stoke.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name for someone from any of the numerous places called Stoke.Dutch : occupational name for a stoker, Middle Dutch stokere, or from the same word in the sense ‘fire raiser’, ‘arsonist’.Scottish : occupational name for a trumpeter, Gaelic stocaire, an agent derivative of stoc ‘Gaelic trumpet’. The name is borne by a sept of the McFarlanes.
Surname or Lastname
English (southern)
English (southern) : habitational name from places in Gloucestershire and Middlesex, so named from Old English strÅd ‘marshy ground overgrown with brushwood’. Strood in Kent is named with the same word, and some examples of the surname are no doubt derived from this term in independent use.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from any of the numerous places, for example in Cambridgeshire, Essex, Gloucestershire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Shropshire, and Suffolk, so called from Old English stÅw, a word akin to stoc (see Stoke), with the specialized meaning ‘meeting place’, frequently referring to a holy place or church. Places in Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, and Staffordshire having this origin use the spelling Stowe, but the spelling difference cannot be relied on as an indication of locality of origin. The final -e in part represents a trace of the Old English dative inflection.Americanized form of various like-sounding Jewish surnames.A John Stowe settled in Roxbury, MA, and took the freeman’s oath in 1634.
Surname or Lastname
English and French
English and French : metonymic occupational name, from Middle English, Old French trone ‘weighing machine’.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Stroud.German (Ströde) : topographic name from a dialect word meaning ‘thicket’.
Boy/Male
English
From the village.
Surname or Lastname
English and German
English and German : variant of Stock.Probably an Americanized form of Stokke.
Boy/Male
English
Village
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from Middle English stride ‘(long) pace’ (from stride(n) ‘to walk with long steps’), presumably a nickname for someone with long legs or whose gait had a purposeful air, although Reaney and Wilson suggest it may also have been a topographic name for someone who lived by a crossing point over a stream, presumably no wider than a stride. They cite as an example a place known as The Strid, in North Yorkshire.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : unexplained.North German (Ströker) : from an agent derivative of Struck.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from Middle English stork ‘stork’, hence a nickname for a thin man with long legs, or perhaps occasionally a habitational name for someone living at a house distinguished by the sign of a stork. In Yorkshire, where the name is most frequent, it may be a habitational name from a place so named (now known as Storkhill), near Beverley.North German : nickname for someone thought to resemble a stork, Middle Low German stork.German : habitational name from a place so named in Hesse.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : metonymic occupational name from Middle English strike, the stick used by a Striker.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Striker (from the Old English byform strÄcian).
Boy/Male
English
Stone
STROKE POEM
STROKE POEM
Boy/Male
American, Australian, Chinese, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Irish, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish
Brave; Masculine; Manly; Beautiful and Dared
Boy/Male
Muslim
Intelligent
Boy/Male
Bengali, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Sindhi, Telugu
Limitless Space
Boy/Male
Tamil
Prince, Author of Tamil masterpiece silappadhikaram
Boy/Male
Gujarati, Indian
Total Bliss
Boy/Male
Scottish American Gaelic English Anglo Saxon Irish
Seething pool.
Girl/Female
Arabic, Muslim, Pashtun
Dawn; Sunrise; Witchcraft; Magic
Female
English
Variant spelling of English Lexy, LEXI means "defender of mankind."
Boy/Male
Teutonic American Native American English German
Lion.
Girl/Female
English
Ruler.
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v. t.
To strike.
a.
Making a stroke without recoil; deadbeat.
n.
An accidental or a slyly given stroke.
v. t.
To make a sudden impression upon, as by a blow; to affect sensibly with some strong emotion; as, to strike the mind, with surprise; to strike one with wonder, alarm, dread, or horror.
v. t.
A sudden attack of disease; especially, a fatal attack; a severe disaster; any affliction or calamity, especially a sudden one; as, a stroke of apoplexy; the stroke of death.
v. t.
The rate of succession of stroke; as, a quick stroke.
v. i.
To strike with a long stroke.
n.
A stroke.
v. t.
The rower who pulls the stroke oar; the strokesman.
v. t.
To row the stroke oar of; as, to stroke a boat.
v. t.
A mark or dash in writing or printing; a line; the touch of a pen or pencil; as, an up stroke; a firm stroke.
v. t.
To lower; to let or take down; to remove; as, to strike sail; to strike a flag or an ensign, as in token of surrender; to strike a yard or a topmast in a gale; to strike a tent; to strike the centering of an arch.
imp. & p. p.
of Stroke
v. t.
To cause or produce by a stroke, or suddenly, as by a stroke; as, to strike a light.
v. t.
To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.
v. t.
A powerful or sudden effort by which something is done, produced, or accomplished; also, something done or accomplished by such an effort; as, a stroke of genius; a stroke of business; a master stroke of policy.
v. t.
To stamp or impress with a stroke; to coin; as, to strike coin from metal: to strike dollars at the mint.
v. t.
To cause to sound by one or more beats; to indicate or notify by audible strokes; as, the clock strikes twelve; the drums strike up a march.
v. t.
The oar nearest the stern of a boat, by which the other oars are guided; -- called also stroke oar.