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backstroke 1. Swimming a. a stroke performed on the back, using backward circular strokes of each arm and flipper movements of the feet b. (as modifier): the backstroke champion 2. Chiefly US a backhanded stroke 3. Bell-ringing the upward movement of the bell rope as the bell swings back and forth How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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By God your worship should read what I have read of Felixmarte of Hircania, how with one single backstroke he cleft five giants asunder through the middle as if they had been made of bean-pods like the little friars the children make; and another time he attacked a very great and powerful army, in which there were more than a million six hundred thousand soldiers, all armed from head to foot, and he routed them all as if they had been flocks of sheep. |
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