Dead-stroke

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Dead-stroke \Dead"-stroke`\, a. (Mech.)
     Making a stroke without recoil; deadbeat.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     {Dead-stroke hammer} (Mach.), a power hammer having a spring
        interposed between the driving mechanism and the hammer


        head, or helve, to lessen the recoil of the hammer and
        reduce the shock upon the mechanism.
        [1913 Webster]