Usually means: Gentle, rhythmic brushing or caressing.
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  1. stroking: Collins English Dictionary
  2. stroking: Vocabulary.com
  3. Stroking, stroking: Wordnik
  4. stroking: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. stroking: Wiktionary
  6. stroking: Dictionary.com
  7. stroking: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  8. Stroking: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. stroking: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. stroking: Rhymezone
  11. Stroking: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. stroking: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. stroking: FreeDictionary.org
  14. stroking: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. Stroking: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. stroking: Merriam-Webster

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  1. stroking: Legal dictionary

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  1. stroking: Encyclopedia

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  2. stroking: Medical dictionary

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  1. stroking: Idioms

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  1. stroking: Urban Dictionary

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  2. Stroking: Sports Definitions

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(Note: See stroke as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (stroking)

noun:  The act of making strokes or giving a stroke.
noun:  (textiles) The act of laying small gathers in cloth in regular order.

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