stroker
nounEtymology From stroke + -er.
7 senses
1
One who strokes.
2
Something with which to stroke.
3
Slang A four-stroke engine or by extension the vehicle itself; especially a motorcycle, as opposed to a two-stroke motorcycle (smoker).
4
Derogatory, Slang A masturbator.
5
Derogatory, Slang A loser.
6
Derogatory, Slang A criminal, a trickster.
7
Obsolete 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 Touch, must be reputed Sacred, such a Jewel as cannot be alienated from a Crown.1670, anonymous author, “The Cloud Opened: Or, The English Hero”, in The Harleian Miscellany, volume 4, published 1745, page 153:
- […] 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 groped away the Gout or Kings Evil more infallibly than this dear Father,1691, John Dunton, chapter 6, in A Voyage Round the World, page 112: