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Answer for the clue "Stroke ", 3 letters:
rub
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Word definitions for rub in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 14c., transitive and intransitive, of uncertain origin, perhaps related to East Frisian rubben "to scratch, rub," and Low German rubbeling "rough, uneven," or similar words in Scandinavian (compare Danish rubbe "to rub, scrub," Norwegian rubba ), ...
Usage examples of rub.
I was, therefore, obliged to give it up, as you may imagine, but I own I went away with rather a heavy heart, for the horse had looked at me affectionately, had rubbed his head against me and, when I mounted him, had pranced in the most delightful way imaginable, so that I was altogether fascinated with him.
She took ambergris from her pack and crumbled it, rubbed the waxy green granules into the soles of her feet, her wrists.
The arm on which she had rubbed the ambergris was sliding free, for the fabric did not adhere to it.
Taking the towel as Amine left to hang her clothes, Christina rubbed her body down vigorously.
Billy Anker absently rubbed his right hand as if to alleviate the pain of his missing fingers.
When Aumery dried him off, Michel rubbed the stubble on his head, feeling vulnerable with the air moving against his scalp and his bare, clean skin.
She slipped the red bandanna off her head and rubbed her sweaty face with it.
The bather had no soap, but used rough fibre gloves with which he rubbed the surface of his skin until it glowed.
The beshti set to bawling and rumbling, rubbing necks and heads and snuffing familiar scents, as happy as the rest of them, weary as the creatures were, and deserving of rest.
Camille his thigh, and she, fancying herself on the boards, began to rub the sick man, whilst I mumbled in an undertone words which they would not have understood however clearly I had spoken, seeing that I did not understand them myself.
The act of eating, however, with all its gustatory noises, the stinking belch that filled the cavern, the rubbing of the behemothian stomach-all this, all at once, horrifying and sickening both.
He rubbed it bethumb and forefinger, as if testing its texture, then handed it to Howard.
He rubbed his hands, and the character of his joy was so evidently ferocious that de Beze shuddered: he saw the sea of blood his master was contemplating.
He rubbed the engraved opal that was the bezel of the ring and it began to glow like a brightening ember, smoky crimson shot with livid green at first, then kindling to a vivid scarlet.
As she looked him over, she rubbed at her eyes, which were bloodshot from smoking the potent bhang they grow on Summerworld.