full stroke

From under the suspicious-looking coat was drawn a broad assegai, and he whipped round barely in time to avoid its full stroke.

In starting the locomotive the valve is set to make a full stroke.

I knew that we hadn't—so to say—coals for one boiler while we had forty engines in full stroke; but I could n't get away.

The tough trunk of a young spruce would have been broken as quickly under that terrible, blasting full-stroke of a grizzly.

From this height he could make out her body beneath the surface swimming a full stroke straight for the far end of the tank.