[UP- 2 + STROKE sb.1]
1. dial. The upshot, end, or conclusion.
1828–. in Eng. Dial. Dict. (Yks., Lancs., Derby, Linc.).
2. A stroke delivered upwards.
1828. Gardener’s Mag., III. 30. The air which enters from the valves by the up-stroke of the bellows.
1883. Encycl. Brit., XVI. 447/2. When the up-stroke is being made … the piston is forced to make part of a revolution.
3. The upward stroke of a pen, etc.
1848. Dickens, Dombey, lix. [She] clutches the money tight until a receipt … is duly signed, to the last up-stroke.
1856. Mrs. Browning, Aur. Leigh, I. 847. Some upstroke of an alpha and omega.
1898. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., V. 822. In the irritable heart of young adults the upstroke in the sphygmogram is brisk and high.
