English

frontstroke

From front + stroke.

A compound of front + stroke

Latin frōns ‘forehead’

Old French front ‘forehead’

Middle English front

English front

Proto-Indo-European *streyg- ‘to rub, stroke’

Proto-Germanic *straikaz

Proto-West Germanic *straik ‘stroke, line, dash’

Old English strāc

Middle English strok ‘blow from a weapon, cut’

Today it means

adj Of a typewriter: having typebars that are arranged in an arc above the keyboard and swing upward to strike the front of the platen.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

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