Definition of "upstrokes" [upstrokes]

• Plural form of upstroke. (noun)

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• "At the end of the session, if you managed to keep them all in mind while you sat straight but also stayed relaxed, and if you concentrated on what you were doing instead of wishing you were out in the school yard playing Red Rover, you had pages of perfect ovals, upstrokes, and downstrokes, and by the end of third grade, these would have come together into some species of legible penmanship."
• "TRUINI: Because this saw cuts on the upcuts, upstrokes."
• "Why should downstrokes be thick and upstrokes thin?"