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handstroke
handstroke (ˈhændstrəʊk) Also handi-, handystroke. [f. hand n. + stroke. For the variant handistroke, handy stroke, cf. hand-blow and handy a.] † 1. A stroke or blow with the hand. to come to handstrokes (handy strokes), to come to blows or hand-to-hand fighting. So to be at handstrokes, etc.α 1523 ... Oxford English Dictionary
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Ring of bells
The first stroke is the handstroke with a small amount of rope on the wheel. Each pull reverses the direction of the bell's motion; as the bell swings back and forth, the strokes are called "handstroke" and "backstroke" by turns wikipedia.org
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handistroke
handistroke by-form of handstroke. Oxford English Dictionary
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Change ringing
This is called 'open handstroke' ringing (or open handstroke leading). "come round at handstroke), or produce rounds prematurely. wikipedia.org
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slaughterous
slaughterous, a. (ˈslɔːtərəs) [f. slaughter n. + -ous.] Murderous, destructive.1582 Stanyhurst æneis i. (Arb.) 20 What fortun vnhappye Mee fenst from falling wyth thy fierce slaughterus handstroke. 1605 Shakes. Macb. v. v. 14 Direnesse familiar to my slaughterous thoughts Cannot once start me. 1634 ... Oxford English Dictionary
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Campanology
Each alternate pull or stroke is identified as either handstroke or backstroke – handstroke where the "sally" (the fluffy area covered with wool) is pulled wikipedia.org
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handy
▪ I. handy, n. north. dial. [f. hand n.] 1. See quot. 1825.1681 Inv. in Biggar & Ho. of Fleming (1862) 62 Item to Andrew Murray ane Say a handy and a seck rindle. 1818 Edin. Mag. Dec. 503 (Jam.), I flang the hannie frae me. 1825 Brockett N.C. Gloss., Handy, a small wooden vessel with an upright hand... Oxford English Dictionary
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sally
▪ I. sally, n.1 (ˈsælɪ) Forms: 6 sale, saley, (salew), sallie, 7–8 salley, 8 sailly, 7– sally. [a. F. saillie issuing forth, outrush, outbreak (hence ‘sally’ of wit, etc.), projection, prominence (also in OF. leap), f. saillir: see sail v.3, sally v.1 Parallel formations on the etymologically equiva... Oxford English Dictionary
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