"by-stroke" meaning in All languages combined

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        "1": "en",
        "2": "by",
        "3": "stroke"
      },
      "expansion": "by- + stroke",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From by- + stroke.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "by-strokes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "by-stroke (plural by-strokes)",
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  "lang": "English",
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  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1911, The Parliamentary debates: Official Report",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1907, Caroline Lane Reynolds Slemmer Jebb (lady.), Arthur Woollgar Verrall, Life and letters of Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb, O. M., LITT. D.",
          "text": "We must be content to signalize a by-stroke of sympathetic delicacy."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An accidental or slyly given stroke; a side-blow or side-wind; a ruse."
      ],
      "id": "en-by-stroke-en-noun-QAYpeQ6u",
      "links": [
        [
          "accidental",
          "accidental"
        ],
        [
          "sly",
          "sly"
        ],
        [
          "stroke",
          "stroke"
        ],
        [
          "side-blow",
          "side-blow"
        ],
        [
          "side-wind",
          "side-wind"
        ],
        [
          "ruse",
          "ruse"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "by-stroke"
}

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    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "by",
        "3": "stroke"
      },
      "expansion": "by- + stroke",
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From by- + stroke.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "by-strokes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
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      "expansion": "by-stroke (plural by-strokes)",
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  "pos": "noun",
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1911, The Parliamentary debates: Official Report",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1907, Caroline Lane Reynolds Slemmer Jebb (lady.), Arthur Woollgar Verrall, Life and letters of Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb, O. M., LITT. D.",
          "text": "We must be content to signalize a by-stroke of sympathetic delicacy."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An accidental or slyly given stroke; a side-blow or side-wind; a ruse."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "accidental",
          "accidental"
        ],
        [
          "sly",
          "sly"
        ],
        [
          "stroke",
          "stroke"
        ],
        [
          "side-blow",
          "side-blow"
        ],
        [
          "side-wind",
          "side-wind"
        ],
        [
          "ruse",
          "ruse"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "by-stroke"
}