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Vapulation :: Vapulation (n.) The act of beating or whipping.

Hurl :: Hurl (n.) A table on which fiber is stirred and mixed by beating with a bowspring.

Batfowling :: Batfowling (n.) A mode of catching birds at night, by holding a torch or other light, and beating the bush or perch where they roost. The birds, flying to the light, are caught with nets or otherwise..

Battue :: Battue (v. t.) The act of beating the woods, bushes, etc., for game..

Reed :: Reed (n.) A frame having parallel flat stripe of metal or reed, between which the warp threads pass, set in the swinging lathe or batten of a loom for beating up the weft; a sley. See Batten..

Beating :: Beating (n.) The process of sailing against the wind by tacks in zigzag direction.

Rivet :: Rivet (v. t.) To spread out the end or point of, as of a metallic pin, rod, or bolt, by beating or pressing, so as to form a sort of head..

Spread :: Spread (v. i.) To be extended by drawing or beating; as, some metals spread with difficulty..

Browbeating :: Browbeating (n.) The act of bearing down, abashing, or disconcerting, with stern looks, supercilious manners, or confident assertions..

Bastinado :: Bastinado (n.) A sound beating with a stick or cudgel. Specifically: A form of punishment among the Turks, Chinese, and others, consisting in beating an offender on the soles of his feet..

Braid :: Braid (v. t.) To mingle, or to bring to a uniformly soft consistence, by beating, rubbing, or straining, as in some culinary operations..

Trip :: Trip (n.) A single board, or tack, in plying, or beating, to windward..

Scutch :: Scutch (v. t.) To separate the woody fiber from (flax, hemp, etc.) by beating; to swingle..

Arsis :: Arsis (n.) The elevation of the hand, or that part of the bar at which it is raised, in beating time; the weak or unaccented part of the bar; -- opposed to thesis..

Battery :: Battery (v. t.) The unlawful beating of another. It includes every willful, angry and violent, or negligent touching of another's person or clothes, or anything attached to his person or held by him..

Foliation :: Foliation (n.) The act of beating a metal into a thin plate, leaf, foil, or lamina..

Hammer :: Hammer (v. t.) To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.

Scutch :: Scutch (v. t.) To loosen and dress the fiber of (cotton or silk) by beating; to free (fibrous substances) from dust by beating and blowing.

Malleation :: Malleation (n.) The act or process of beating into a plate, sheet, or leaf, as a metal; extension by beating..

Punish :: Punish (v. t.) To injure, as by beating; to pommel..

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