stroker

One who strokes.

Noun

  1. One who strokes.
  2. Something with which to stroke.
  3. A four-stroke engine or by extension the vehicle itself; especially a motorcycle, as opposed to a two-stroke motorcycle (smoker).
  4. A masturbator.
  5. A loser.
  6. A criminal, a trickster.
  7. A person who cures illnesses (especially scrofula, ) by stroking the sufferer.
    • The bold Folly of Stroakers may seem a Mocking of Majesty, and the Intrenching on that Prerogative, which, conferred by a St. Edward the Confessor, and a Saint Lewis, on the Kings of England and France, to cure by...
    • […] never did any person address themselves to him for cure in those forementioned accidents, but he cured ’em one and all as fast as they'd come near him; so that not Greatrix himself that wonder-working Stroker ever...

Origin

Etymology tree English stroke English -er English stroker From stroke + -er.

Forms

strokers