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umstroke

noun

Etymology

From um- + stroke.

  1. derived from *streyg-✻ — “to rub, stroke; to shear; to strike”
  2. inherited from *straikaz✻ — “stroke”
  3. inherited from *straik✻
  4. inherited from strāc
  5. inherited from strok
  6. prefixed as umstroke — “um + stroke”

Definitions

  1. The circumference or periphery of a circle.

  2. A boundary line, especially one at the outermost limit

    A boundary line, especially one at the outermost limit; an extreme edge.

    • Such towns as stand, as one may say, on tiptoes on the very umstroke, or on any part of the utmost line of a map […]

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA