upstroke

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a stroke or movement made upward, especially with a pen, brush, piston, or musical plectrum

   The pen spluttered on every upstroke of the carefully formed letter.

A compound of up + stroke. It names the upward half of a repeated or alternating motion and is especially common in handwriting, brushwork, machinery, and stringed-instrument technique.

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