Слово "stroke". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

There came a pause, a hiatus, the pig continued to scream and the creepers to jerk, and the blade continued to flash at the end of a bony arm. The pause was only long enough for them to understand what an enormity the downward stroke would be.

I used to catch snatches here and there when I was standing by ready to assist in my chauffeurly and handy-man way. It was always on the cards that Mr. Constantine would have a heart attack or a stroke.  

It's the ONLY thing,' said the Water Rat solemnly, as he leant forward for his stroke.

After a very bad stroke,

The man has had a stroke, as I warned him.

"Poetry is God in the Sacred Dreams of the Earth", an animated conversation was in progress following the news of Claudia Ivanovna's stroke.

Then they rocked together in long, slow strokes and somewhere in there he thought she came again.

Sometimes he was all but submerged, swimming through oblivion with a faltering stroke; and again, by some strange alchemy of soul, he would find another shred of will and strike out more strongly.

In so far as he had time to remember it, he was not troubled by the fact that every word he murmured into the speakwrite, every stroke of his ink-pencil, was a deliberate lie.

“What a stroke of luck for us!” exclaimed the doctor.

That idea of yours about the bromides was a stroke of genius!

and they were ahead by five strokes

I wasn’t worth a decent stroke of work, but it was more than that—I didn’t want to leave Gatsby.

About nine o’clock the light among the trees was extinguished, and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of eleven, a single bright light shone out right in front of us.

I stroked her hair and patted her shoulder.

            Dyoma found her hand and began to stroke it.

“The only thing we can do now,” said Benjy, crouching and stroking his whiskers in thought, “is to try and fake a question, invent one that will sound plausible.”

Piggy paused for breath and stroked the glistening thing that lay in Ralph’s hands.

"It is better not to know," Golz stroked his forehead with the pencil.

And – I was a long way away, but I am almost certain I saw this – he was talking to you and you were allowing him to stroke your nose.

He reached out for his hat and holding it in one hand absentmindedly stroked it with the other.