strokesmann.
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1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 332. ⁋ 3 Though he would not willingly detract from the Merit of that extraordinary Strokes-Man Mr. Sprightly.
2. One who pulls the stroke-oar in a boat.
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1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Strokesman, the person who rows the hindmost oar in a boat, and gives the stroke, which the rest are to follow.
1805 Naval Chron. 14 280 A shot carried away the hand of the Strokesman.
1850 H. Melville White-jacket xvii. 90 ‘Let him drown!’ cried the strokesman; ‘he's spoiled my watch below for me.’
1868 Field 4 July 14/3 The steady stroke rowed by Gulston, their strokesman, was deserving of all praise.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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