What would "stroke" mean here?

Native speaker’s answer

Rebecca

In this context, the word "stroke" is being read out by the person holding the little book. He is trying to find the right page, and in doing so, reads out the beginning of the other pages before he gets to the one he wants. So, we don't know the context of the word "stroke" here since he did not read the rest of the sentence. Ex: Larry was looking for a specific page in his book "Hurry.. no. If only I could... Oh, here it is!". Ex: Apples... Bananas... ah yes, C for cinnamon. I found it in the dictionary!

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