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dead-stroke (medicine)


dead-stroke
<mechanics> Making a stroke without recoil; deadbeat.

<machinery> Dead-stroke hammer, a power hammer having a spring interposed between the driving mechanism and the hammer head, or helve, to lessen the recoil of the hammer and reduce the shock upon the mechanism.

Source: Websters Dictionary


abattoir (iou)



abattoir noun. E19.
[French, from abattre to fell: see -ORY1.]
A slaughterhouse.