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wingstroke

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Etymology

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From wing +‎ stroke.

Noun

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wingstroke (plural wingstrokes)

  1. A wingbeat.
    • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World [], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
      It was a wonderful sight to see at least a hundred creatures of such enormous size and hideous appearance all swooping like swallows with swift, shearing wing-strokes above us; but soon we realized that it was not one on which we could afford to linger.

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