stroker, stroaker

[Eng. stroke, v.; -er.] 1. One who strokes; spec if.. one who pretended to cure by stroking the part affected. "They will remind us of the cures worked by Greatrix, the stroaker , in the memory of our fathers; and of those performed at the tomb of Abbé Paris, in our own."War burton: Works , vol. x., ser. 27. *2. A flatterer.