mercy stroke
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of mercy stroke
First recorded in 1695–1705
Example Sentences
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Catlin and Inman and every traveller familiar with the great plains region between the Arkansas and Saskatchewan testify that the quick death of the bullet was, indeed, the mercy stroke compared to nature's end of her wild creatures.
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To such the hunter's shot was a mercy stroke.
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